Richard Stephenson
Cloud Solution Architect at Eaton
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Stephenson is a Cloud Solution Architect with 11 years of experience helping startups and mid-sized organizations deliver IoT, renewable energy, and agtech solutions using Azure, AI, and Python. He has a proven track record building POCs and operational systems—from wildfire response command centers and humanitarian-crisis detection with Azure OpenAI to solar monitoring and ML-driven microgrid optimization that cut diesel use by 15%. Comfortable briefing executives and leading cross-functional teams, he has generated tangible business outcomes including $400K in recurring Azure migration revenue for startups. Richard combines product-focused thinking with hands-on engineering (C#, Python) and field experience deploying MQTT/Modbus IoT architectures across diverse geographies. Based in Durham, NC, he blends enterprise-scale cloud practice from Microsoft with early-stage founder experience, and outside work he’s as likely to be found skiing or tinkering with Beagles as debugging edge devices.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Business Administration and Information Systems, Bachelor's Business Administration and Information Systems at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (37)
arm-templates10
arm10
azure10
bicep9
desktop9
windows9
agriculture8
weather8
color-picker8
prediction-model8
soil7
noaa7
sustainability7
powertoys7
stac7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
richstep/Drupal-7-as-an-Azure-App-Service
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
richstep/cortana-intelligence-energy-demand-forecasting
Jan 2020 - Jun 2023
Energy industry solutions using the Cortana Intelligence Suite with end-to-end walkthrough.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
energy-industryend-to-endindustrycortanaenergy
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