Richard Gooch
Technical Director at Pure Storage
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Gooch is a technical director and cloud architect with 11 years of focused experience in people leadership, systems architecture, and building reliable, secure, and operable cloud platforms. Currently at Pure Storage and founder of Cloud-Foundations.org, he blends hands-on engineering with programme and team management to deliver scalable private and public cloud infrastructure. His career spans leadership and senior engineering roles at Brex, Symantec, and a decade at Google, where he developed a deep grounding in large-scale distributed systems. Known for leading by example, mentoring engineers, and fostering a respectful, growth-oriented culture, he emphasizes technical excellence and innovation. Richard is ideally positioned to serve as a Chief Architect to design and build a new private cloud, bringing both strategic vision and practical implementation experience. An underappreciated strength is his consistent focus on operability—designing systems that are not only secure and scalable but easy to run and evolve.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (91)
programming-language10
identity10
interpreter10
infrastructure10
ssh10
lookup-table10
x50910
golang10
management10
compiler10
sandbox10
openidc10
goplus10
go10
odin10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Symantec/cloud-gate
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
Cloud authentication broker
Contributions:46 commits, 27 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 7 months
gcpbrokerauthenticationcloudaws
rgooch/website
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Content hosting for www.cloud-foundations.org website
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 2 months
hostingfoundations
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