Rick Burgess
VP Of Engineering, Trust And Identity at Spec
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Burgess is a hands-on technology leader with 12+ years scaling platform and trust engineering teams across startups and global enterprises. Currently VP of Engineering, Trust and Identity at Ticketmaster, he previously built DAZN’s Platform division from scratch, growing it to 100 engineers and designing global cloud, CI/CD and observability systems that supported millions of concurrent users. He blends strategic technical leadership with deep operational experience in SRE, developer experience, and cloud-native architectures (Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform). Rick has a track record of turning niche products into widely adopted platforms—e.g., SmartContent powering JCDecaux digital screens across 20+ countries—and prioritizes developer velocity and cost visibility. Based in New York, he also advises early-stage companies, bringing pragmatic, product-focused engineering to complex trust, safety and data challenges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computing, Business Studies, Psycology, Sociology, Computing, Business Studies, Psycology, Sociology at Burgate Sixth Form CentreBournemouth University
English
Github Skills (106)
laravel10
filesystem10
php10
parsing10
intervention9
thephpleague9
terraform9
image9
gd9
terraform-provider9
aws9
imagick9
golang8
abstraction8
go8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nodefortytwo/amz-ssh
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
a tool that replaces aws/aws-ec2-instance-connect-cli. No python and support for ssh tunnels
Contributions:11 releases, 33 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
awsclipythonssh-tunnel
nodefortytwo/drone-aws-role-auth
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
simply uses sts to get temporary credentials and writes those credentials to a file to be loaded by a future stage
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
temporary-credentialscredentialsawsstsstage
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