Richard Lewis
Senior Manager - Automation And Innovation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Lewis is a Senior Manager focused on Automation and Innovation who brings two decades of IT experience and a deep specialization in DevOps, observability, and cloud migration. He has helped startups and Fortune 500 firms streamline delivery pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform Cloud, Octopus Deploy and Netlify, and now leads automation strategy at 3Cloud. Known for turning developer experience and monitoring gaps into repeatable, automated practices, he blends hands-on implementation with coaching and public speaking to spread best practices across Chicago’s tech community. Outside client work he runs a long-standing content project (Gogorichie), volunteers with JCI, and organized local observability meetups—evidence of his commitment to community-driven learning. His background as a former developer informs a pragmatic approach to DevOps that balances tooling choices with measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Networking, Computer Networking at Robert Morris University - Illinois
Stackoverflow
49reputation
4kreached
4answers
4questions
Github Skills (66)
python10
plex10
cost-management10
google10
meta10
raspberry-pi10
hashicorp9
mqtt9
home-automation9
azure9
wordpress-themes9
hugo9
hugo-theme9
terraform9
gcp9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gogorichie/gogorichieblog
May 2021 - May 2026
Personal website and blog built on Hugo
Contributions:1 review, 104 PRs, 284 pushes in 5 years
hugostatic-siteazure-static-web-appshugo-blogjekyll
gogorichie/terraform-grafana-influxdb-ds-module
May 2023 - Jun 2026
A terraform module to deploy Influxdb data sources to Grafana
Contributions:9 releases, 55 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years
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