Richard Simpson
Site Reliability Engineer at 8am
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Simpson is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Austin with 12 years of hands-on experience building reliable, observable, and developer-friendly systems across cloud-native and full-stack environments. He blends strong frontend UX instincts—shipping high-performance React apps and ChocolateyGUI improvements—with backend and infrastructure expertise, including Kubernetes IaC, Terraform, and Vault integrations (notably contributing to hashicorp/vault-action). At uShip he led observability initiatives, reduced tech debt, and created reusable libraries that raised team velocity while lowering alert fatigue and MTTR. A self-described DevX/UX nerd, he focuses on making developers’ lives easier through tooling and thoughtful architecture, and his work reflects a curiosity for clean code and practical automation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Reicher High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
apim10
github-ci10
javascript10
jes10
ui-design10
chocolatey10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
vault10
dotnet-core10
jtest10
wpf10
windows-gui10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault-action
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
A GitHub Action that simplifies using HashiCorp Vault™ secrets as build variables.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 67 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard's contributions focused on the implementation of core logic and functionalities for the HashiCorp Vault action. They added the initial code logic and subsequently refactored key retrieval methods. Their work included parsing input parameters, handling secret retrieval, and integrating with the Vault API. Furthermore, the user developed and implemented end-to-end tests to validate the functionality of retrieving secrets from the Vault service.
hashicorp-vaultvaultmultiple-secretssecrets-enginevault-action
chocolatey/ChocolateyGUI
Feb 2014 - Oct 2017
A delicious GUI for Chocolatey
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:163 commits, 60 PRs, 132 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed significantly to the ChocolateyGUI project by implementing core features and refactoring existing services. They rewrote package lists, implemented a remote package service, and refactored the navigation service. They also added a settings view with supporting functionality and addressed inconsistencies and potential issues within the code. The user's commits touch both the front-end and back-end aspects of the application and involved managing configuration files.
chocolateyc-sharpgui
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