Summary
Richard Nunez is a pragmatic "Renaissance" IT professional and business owner with over 30 years of hands-on experience who now focuses on bridging high-velocity DevOps and complex Data Engineering at Shell. He architects end-to-end cloud-native platforms and MLOps pipelines—bringing rare silicon-to-cloud perspective—while championing immutable, observable, and secure infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, Databricks, and Azure services. Known for shipping pragmatic automation, he built a custom Data Testing Framework with Playwright/TypeScript and open-sourced the playwright-azure-monitor-reporter to improve testing-to-observability workflows. A leader who mentors by doing, Richard blends deep operational experience (from physical server arrays to Talos Linux) with a "shift-left" security mindset and a knack for turning messy migrations into dependable, auditable pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of Houston