Rick Buskens
Engineering Manager, Storage Systems at Google
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Buskens is an engineering manager specializing in large-scale storage and cloud infrastructure with 11+ years at Google leading teams across storage systems, cloud monitoring, continuous deployment, and technical infrastructure. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon) with decades of hands-on leadership dating back to Bell Labs and Lockheed Martin, guiding research-to-production transitions. Known for designing highly scalable, reliable distributed systems, he balances strategic roadmaps with operational rigor to ship resilient services at global scale. Based in Jersey City, he brings a researcher's discipline to engineering management and a track record of building high-performing teams that bridge advanced research and production-grade software. Notably, his career reflects continuous evolution from networking research to cloud-native storage, indicating strong adaptability and long-term technical stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of ManitobaPhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
docker10
stackdriver10
go10
fluentd10
google-cloud-platform9
logging9
spinnaker8
scheduling8
continuous-delivery8
mesos8
continuous-deployment8
kubernetes-monitoring7
collectd7
terraform7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rbuskens/spinnaker.github.io
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 32 branches in 2 months
spinnaker
rbuskens/kubernetes
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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