Richard Durso
Deployment Specialist at Durso Standpipes & Consulting
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Durso is a Deployment Specialist and infrastructure architect with 10 years of experience delivering CI/CD and production deployments for federal clients, including the IRS and Department of the Treasury. Holding an Active MBI Clearance, he has driven the first continuous deployment database project at the IRS by developing reusable automation frameworks and extensive Linux scripting that cut deployment times from hours to minutes. His technical toolkit spans Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, ArgoCD, Jenkins, TrueNAS/ZFS and iSCSI, with specialties in server and network architecture and deployment automation. He combines hands-on production support—including 20+ production releases—with repeatable documentation and environment-abstracted procedures that standardize releases across environments. Outside of government work he is an inventor and small-business owner who designs the Durso Standpipe for aquariums and publishes on coral propagation, a detail that reflects practical engineering creativity and attention to systems both digital and biological.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
k8s10
knowledge-graph10
home-automation10
prometheus10
zigbee10
nodejs10
trilium10
notebook10
custom-component10
python10
prometheus-exporter10
argocd10
backup10
zfs10
home-assistant10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
reefland/ansible-zfs_on_root
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Ansible ZFS on Root with device based zpool rules. For bare metal installs. ZFS Encryption, UEFI and Dropbear included.
Contributions:4 releases, 198 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 6 months
ansiblebare-metaldropbearencryptionuefi
reefland/motd
Mar 2022 - Jun 2025
Custom Message of the Day for Linux with ZFS Enhancements
Contributions:9 releases, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
linuxzfshddtempmotdmotd-message
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