Rick Bowen
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Saratoga, California, United States
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Top SchoolRick Bowen is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 18+ years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, secure cloud and on-prem infrastructure, now focused at Palo Alto Networks. He combines deep systems and security expertise—Go, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, IAM and multi-cloud governance—with a passion for developer productivity, opinionated automation, and elegant documentation. Rick has led platform and security initiatives at startups and enterprises, delivering zero-touch device provisioning, multi-cloud observability across thousands of accounts, and automated tenant provisioning that collapsed hours of manual work into a single click. He pairs a practitioner’s mastery of low-level networking and Linux with product-minded engineering, having owned GitLab, Jira, Keycloak, global AD, and Zero-Trust reverse proxies in production. Based in Saratoga, CA, he’s a self-described “Linux grey-beard” who also sharpens his non-virtual skills in woodworking, machining and home systems—bringing pragmatic, hands-on problem solving to complex reliability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English Math Chemistry, English Math Chemistry at College of Marin
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
remote-execution10
client-library10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
api10
event-stream10
zeromq10
cordova10
aws-fargate10
steampipe10
python10
terraform10
scale10
node-gyp10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rrrix/usercss
Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
rapticore/amplify-cli
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
A CLI toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Contributions:17 pushes, 64 branches in 5 months
mobile-developmentjavascriptserverlesssimplifyingtoolchain
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