Richard Newhook
Senior Integration Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard 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.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (Equivalency), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (Equivalency), Computer Engineering at College of the North Atlantic
Github Skills (14)
cross-browser9
json-schema7
nodejs7
cron4
minecraft4
spigot4
transport3
seneca3
job-scheduler2
package-repository2
kotlin2
javascript2
amqp1
universe1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elnewfie/Spigot-Item-Chest-Sorter
Mar 2023 - May 2026
A Spigot/Paper minecraft plugin to sort your messy items into separate chests | 💯% written in Kotlin
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
elnewfie/builders-buddy
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 6 days
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