Richard Shade
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RockstarRichard Shade is a Senior Cloud Architect with 18 years of experience designing and deploying cloud-native infrastructure, now shaping solutions at Pulumi from Texas. He blends deep infrastructure-as-code expertise with hands-on DevOps, contributing to Pulumi examples that span AWS, Azure, GCP, ECS, FinOps policies, and Kubernetes. His open-source work on the haproxy cookbook shows a practical focus on cross-platform compatibility, robust build/testing, and configurable service management—skills that translate to reliable, production-grade automation. Known for translating complex requirements into repeatable, auditable infrastructure, he’s as comfortable authoring CI/CD and FinOps controls as he is improving init scripts and deployment pipelines.
18 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
configuration-management10
pulumi10
chef-client10
aws10
build-automation10
chef-solo10
haproxy10
devops10
testing9
microsoft-azure9
go9
azure9
docker8
systemd8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/haproxy
Dec 2016 - Feb 2020
Development repository for the haproxy cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 89 commits, 142 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the configuration and management of the HAProxy cookbook, a configuration management project. Their contributions involved adding features for source installation, support for CentOS, integrating Poise service for service management, and fixing various issues related to the init scripts. They also worked on enhancing the build process and testing infrastructure, making the project more robust and compatible with different operating systems. The user added several configuration options and implemented features to enhance the cookbook's overall functionality.
haproxychef-resourcechef
pulumi/examples
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Infrastructure, containers, and serverless apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes... all deployed with Pulumi
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 3 commits, 78 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to infrastructure-as-code examples within the Pulumi ecosystem. Their work included deploying infrastructure on various cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, specifically focusing on using the Pulumi framework to define and manage resources. The contributions span a variety of services, including but not limited to: ECS, FinOps policies, and Jenkins. These changes demonstrate a focus on using modern infrastructure practices.
awsazuregcpkubernetespulumi
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