Richard Hooper
Founder at KubeDeck (open source)
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 (110)
powerline10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
starship10
twitter10
get-started10
shieldsio10
architecture10
charts10
nushell10
prompt10
helm10
golang10
powershell10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
KubeDeckio/KubeDeck
Oct 2024 - Apr 2026
KubeDeck is a suite of open-source tools designed to simplify Kubernetes management. Built with PowerShell and installable via krew, KubeDeck automates tasks such as cleaning up your KubeConfig file with KubeTidy and (soon) managing Kubernetes snapshots with KubeSnapIt, helping you keep your clusters organized and efficient.
Contributions:22 PRs, 113 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
kubeconfigkubernetespowershell
PixelRobots/aks-gitops-demo
Jul 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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