Richard Groot
DataPower Devops Lead
Utah, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard 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.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (2)
configuration-manager10
urbancode10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
ibm-datapower/datapower-configuration-manager
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
IBM DataPower Configuration Manager and IBM UrbanCode plugin
Contributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 10 months
configuration-managerurbancode
UrbanCode/Datapower-Configuration-Manager-UCD
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 comments in 4 days
configurationdatapowerurbancodeconfiguration-manageribm
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