Richard Goodwin
Engineering Program Manager at Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Goodwin is an Engineering Program Manager with 11 years of experience blending product strategy, mobile and storage systems, and usability to deliver customer-focused experiences. Based in Austin, he has led cross-functional programs at Apple and Rackspace, shaping design systems, identity and mobile platforms while translating technical advances into market-facing products. His background spans enterprise cloud, security-focused SaaS, and hands-on mobile development, giving him both product marketing and technical fluency. An advocate for next-generation mobility and social computing, he has also contributed practical DevOps automation—e.g., scripts to turn a Raspberry Pi into a resilient Tesla USB drive—illustrating his tendency to prototype real-world solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs strategic vision with pragmatic engineering to unlock underserved market segments.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
limited spanish
Github Skills (13)
sh10
automation10
linux10
script10
automations10
bash10
shell10
raspberry-pi10
system-configuration10
scripting10
network-configuration9
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
cimryan/teslausb
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Steps and scripts for turning a Raspberry Pi into a useful USB drive for a Tesla
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:98 commits, 13 PRs, 69 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on setting up and configuring a Raspberry Pi for use as a Tesla USB drive. They implemented scripts to make the filesystem read-only, manage partitions, configure WiFi, and download necessary setup scripts. The contributions involved modifying system configurations and automating the setup process for the Tesla USB drive project, streamlining the installation and configuration for users.
raspberry-piusb-drive
rtgoodwin/docs-rackspace-federation
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
All about Federation at Rackspace
Contributions:4 PRs, 46 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
federationrackspace
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