Richard Isaacson
Sr Engineering Manager at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Isaacson is a senior engineering manager with 13 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional teams at enterprises like Target and Gannett. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning Java, Python, NodeJS, Spring Boot and cloud platforms—with operational ownership, having built CI/CD, Ansible-driven deployments, and early cloud migrations. Richard has led product-focused teams that paired backend services, data processing, and frontend visualizations, and he mentors engineers through complex integrations and platform work. His background includes contributing to open-source-friendly tooling and core infrastructure at AnsibleWorks and pioneering cloud support and automation at Eucalyptus and Digital River. Based in Minneapolis, he also teaches Linux administration, reflecting a commitment to developer education and practical systems knowledge. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who prefers solving hard problems end-to-end—from OS and deployment pipelines to user-facing services.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science - Information Systems, BA, Computer Science - Information Systems at University of Wisconsin-River FallsAmerican Swedish InstituteUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesHopkins High School
Swedish
Github Skills (24)
model-driven8
homebrew7
chat6
react5
magicmirror5
ansible5
end-to-end-encryption4
react-native4
keybase4
configuration-management4
devops4
go4
android3
ios3
javascript3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
risaacson/systems_bootstrap
Dec 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
risaacson/presentations
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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