Richard Maynard
Staff Devops Engineer at AffiniPay
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRichard 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.”
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General, Diploma, General at Temecula Valley High School
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Github Skills (108)
terraform10
k8s10
terraform-module10
operator10
monitoring10
charts10
kubernetes-operator10
hashicorp10
helm10
kubernetes10
graph10
alerts10
prometheus10
go10
docker10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ephur/terraform-worker
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
A worker that can run in a container/CICD pipeline to execute terraform from a yaml configuration
Contributions:2 reviews, 125 commits, 131 PRs in 2 years 11 months
pipelinedevopsdockerworkeryaml-configuration
ephur/zshrc
Mar 2018 - Sep 2024
My ZSH config
Contributions:27 PRs, 84 pushes, 47 branches in 6 years 7 months
configdotfilesshellzsh
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