Summary
Richard Whitney is a seasoned network and infrastructure leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-first platforms for FinTech and enterprise customers. Currently managing a blended team at Clover, he has driven major platform migrations, global regional rollouts for Asia, and reduced operational overhead through self-service automation using Terraform Enterprise, Vault, and Rundeck. He pairs deep SRE and DevSecOps expertise—especially secrets, certificate automation, and service mesh patterns—with a practical history of stabilizing and migrating mission-critical workloads across IBM Cloud, GCP, and AWS. Known for turning monoliths into microservices and cutting platform dependency by ~75%, he brings a strong track record of measurable impact on reliability and developer velocity. Based in Monument, Colorado, he also blends programming roots in Java and automation with formal IT/project management training, enabling both strategic leadership and hands-on execution.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Information Technology/ Project Management, M.S, Information Technology/ Project Management at Colorado Technical University