Richard Hooper
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRichard Hooper is a cloud-native Principal Cloud Architect with nine years of experience helping organisations adopt Azure, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code to simplify deployment and operations. Founder of the Pixel Robots blog and co-organiser of Azure Cloud Native, he translates hands-on platform work—Bicep, AKS, GitHub Actions and monitoring—into practical guides and community talks. He’s led cloud transformations and cost/governance improvements that delivered measurable savings and stability, and he now focuses on platform engineering and open-source tooling like KubeDeck. Richard combines traditional IT roots in AD and on-prem systems with modern DevOps practices, which gives him a pragmatic approach to migration and operational reliability. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he’s known for concise, actionable writing and a bias toward solving real problems rather than chasing buzzwords.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (122)
cmd10
powerline10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
paradox10
starship10
twitter10
get-started10
architecture10
shieldsio10
charts10
unicorns10
linux10
nushell10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
PixelRobots/aks-gitops-demo
Jul 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
PixelRobots/keda-docs
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
Documentation and landing page for KEDA
Contributions:54 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
keda
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