Richard Howard
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Howard is a Senior SRE with 13 years of experience building and operating high-performance, cost-sensitive infrastructure across AWS, fintech/crypto, and zero-knowledge proving systems. He specializes in GPU-enabled workloads, IaC (Pulumi/Terraform), observability, incident response, and production hardening—making messy, expensive systems repeatable, secure, and boring to run. Richard has led DevOps and SRE efforts at startups and established platforms (including Blocknative, Gemini, and AWS) and currently focuses on zkVM/proving infrastructure and distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him when performance and operational pressure are high; outside work he’s a husband and father who describes SRE as “attacking a tin shed with a chainsaw… from within the shed,” hinting at a pragmatic, hands-on approach to complex problems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree of General Studies General Studies, Associates Degree of General Studies General Studies at Portland Community CollegeBachelors Of Arts Finance, Bachelors Of Arts Finance at Portland State University - School of Business
Japanese
Github Skills (88)
verifiable10
risc10
microarchitecture10
rust10
sandbox10
risc-v10
virtual-machine10
cryptography10
blockchain10
lotus9
virtualization9
serverless9
unikernel9
edge-computing9
ethereum9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zeroecco/dartspin
Mar 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 2 months
zeroecco/ops
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
ops - build and run nanos unikernels
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
opsdevopsnanosdockerkubernetes
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