Richard Romain
Backend Engineer at Comfy
Emeryville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Romain is a backend engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining production infrastructure, currently focused at Comfy in Emeryville. He excels in Python-driven automation and server management, having written Ansible modules and playbooks to manage hundreds of Ubuntu servers and thousands of VMs. As a former Lead Tools Engineer, he improved developer tooling (git, JIRA, Confluence, LDAP) and led on/off-boarding, hiring, and training, blending technical ownership with team mentorship. He prefers roles that combine writing Python, deploying via Ansible on Linux, and expanding into AWS and Docker, evidencing a practical DevOps mindset. Academically strong with a 4.0 MS in Computer Science, he brings disciplined engineering rigor to operational challenges. Colleagues can rely on him to turn manual operational tasks into repeatable, auditable automation.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at South Dakota State UniversityMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at ENSEEIHT
Github Skills (103)
displays10
slack-bot10
controller10
python10
pyside10
ubuntu10
backlight10
brightness10
influx10
virtualenvwrapper10
ansible10
linux9
outlook9
facebook-api9
exchange-web-services9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
silpion/ansible-lib
Aug 2016 - Jun 2024
Library like task files to be included from third party ansible roles
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 11 months
ansible-rolesansiblepartythird-party
influxdata/influxdb-relay
Jul 2017 - Jun 2024
Service to replicate InfluxDB data for high availability
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 11 months
influxavailabilityinfluxdbhigh-availabilityreplicate
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