Summary
Richard Newhook is a Senior Integration Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building secure, reliable platform tooling and developer workflows for enterprises like Sony Interactive Entertainment, LTK and IBM. He blends site reliability, platform and security engineering to deliver scalable automation—examples include an 80% faster macOS build pipeline via self-hosted GitHub Action runners and leading IBM’s adoption of GitHub Enterprise for 130,000+ developers. Richard focuses on practical systems that improve developer efficiency and protect sensitive data, having led data lake design and organization-wide standards for data protection and AI readiness. Based in San Diego, he is a continual learner who thrives on simplifying complex problems into elegant, production-ready solutions that move teams and businesses forward.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Computer Engineering, Associate of Science (AS), Computer Engineering at College of the North Atlantic