Richard Maynard
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Maynard is a seasoned Staff DevOps Engineer with 14+ years building and automating large-scale internet hosting and services that handle billions of daily queries. He blends deep hands-on skills in Python, Go, Shell and configuration management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) with platform work across Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform and service discovery tools like Etcd and Consul. Richard has led migration efforts from legacy monoliths to containerized, observable platforms and authored custom tooling and complex Python applications to keep fleets of tens of thousands of servers and containers stable and auditable. Equally comfortable in technical leadership and people management, he has driven high-engagement teams measured by NPS and Gallup metrics while championing CI/CD and cloud-agnostic Kubernetes architectures. A longtime proponent of containers since Solaris Zones and an early explorer of OpenVZ, he brings a pragmatic automation-first mindset summed up by his early mentor: “your job is to put yourself out of work.”
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (67)
terraform10
ci-cd-pipeline10
monitoring10
charts10
helm10
kubernetes10
graph10
go10
prometheus10
docker10
prometheus-operator10
infrastructure-as-code10
yaml-configuration9
testinfra9
testing9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
objectrocket/terraform-worker
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
A worker that can run in a container/CICD pipeline to execute terraform from a yaml configuration
Contributions:37 reviews, 52 PRs, 73 pushes in 10 months
ci-cd-pipelineterraformyaml-configuration
ephur/zshrc
Mar 2018 - Jun 2026
My ZSH config
Contributions:37 PRs, 97 pushes, 51 branches in 8 years 4 months
configdotfilesshellzsh
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