Richie Mcintosh
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichie Mcintosh is a Principal Software Engineer in Philadelphia with a decade of experience building and improving backend infrastructure at scale, currently driving engineering work at Akamai. He rose through technical and managerial ranks at Linode before focusing on platform reliability and cloud automation, bringing hands-on experience across software delivery, support, and trust & safety. A pragmatic refactorer, Richie has contributed to the widely used Salt open-source project by simplifying and hardening cloud provider logic for Linode, reducing complexity and potential parsing errors. Colleagues know him for balancing readable, maintainable code with operational pragmatism and for being approachable—he invites direct contact via @rmcintosh on GitHub.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Joseph's University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
configuration-management10
python10
infrastructure-as-code9
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-services9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
May 2018 - May 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Richie primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Salt cloud provider for Linode. Their contributions centered around refining the `get_plan_id` function, which involved decoding user-supplied plan labels. The user addressed code complexity by refactoring the label decoding logic and making it more readable. In addition, they corrected potential errors in plan parsing and quotation mark types.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
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