Richard Spindler
EResearch Infrastructure Operations Lead
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Spindler is an experienced eResearch infrastructure and operations leader with over two decades in IT and 13 years of hands-on experience across academic, corporate, and HPC environments. He currently leads eResearch Infrastructure Operations at Monash University while running his own consultancy, Lateral Blast, and brings deep expertise in designing mixed-architecture solutions, storage and virtualization, and large-scale procurements. Known for negotiating substantial vendor discounts and extracting meaningful cost savings, he has repeatedly delivered multimillion-dollar hardware projects and optimized total cost of ownership. Richard pairs technical leadership—automating deployments, capacity planning and hardware reporting—with people management, quickly assessing and placing technical staff where they add the most value. A former systems architect and professional services engineer with Pure Storage and Intel, he blends research-focused HPC insight with practical corporate IT rigor, often uncovering efficiency gains that aren’t obvious in initial designs.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
TrainingHSC/VCE, English, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics A & B, Japanese, HSC/VCE, English, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics A & B, Japanese at St Annes and Gippsland Grammar SchoolBachelor with honours, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor with honours, Electrical Engineering at Monash University
Japanese
Github Skills (22)
unix10
security10
security-framework10
virtualbox8
nvidia8
hyper-v8
gpgpu7
qemu7
kvm7
multipass7
virtual-machine7
windows6
linux6
ubuntu6
macos5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lateralblast/sargo
Nov 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 7 months
lateralblast/faust
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:185 commits in 3 months
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