Richard Groot is a DataPower DevOps lead and systems architect with over 15 years building secure, scalable integrations across finance, telecom, and cloud platforms. He helped found the DevOps practice securing IBM Bluemix traffic, managing one of the largest DataPower deployments globally, and has a proven track record automating configuration, deployment, and real-time monitoring in high-security, multi-zone environments. Hands-on across Java, Python, Node.js, Vue, and C/C++, he bridges deep protocol-level knowledge with pragmatic tooling to simplify CI/CD and incident troubleshooting. Richard is known for mentoring teams, advocating operational tooling from hard-won incident insights, and preferring straightforward architectures that allow future growth. Based in Utah, he’s open to relocation in the western U.S. or remote roles and enjoys adopting new techniques to solve ambiguous, evolving problems.
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