Summary
Richard Johnson is a senior product development engineer and site reliability specialist with eight years of formal experience and decades of hands-on practice across private, public, and hybrid cloud and HPC environments. At Comcast he leads engineering efforts that blend systems engineering, Kubernetes-driven SRE, monitoring and automation with secure network and authentication architecture. His background in security systems engineering and incident response at research and enterprise organizations informs pragmatic risk analysis (FAIR), usable security design, and network security monitoring. Richard is equally comfortable designing IDS/NGF and authentication systems as he is building resilient cloud infrastructure and runbooks for incident response. Based in Louisville, Colorado, he brings a rare combination of operator instinct, educator experience, and a research-informed approach to balancing security, reliability, and usability.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Colorado Boulder