Rick Kauffman
Data Center Technical Enablement TME
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Kauffman is a seasoned data center architect and technical enablement engineer with 11 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a decades-long background in network engineering and automation. He specializes in translating complex data center technologies—spine/leaf fabrics, overlay/underlay automation, NFV, and API-driven orchestration—into practical sales enablement and deployable solutions for hybrid and private clouds. A pragmatic builder, he automates repetitive network operations (firmware, VLANs, provisioning) with Python and REST APIs to free teams for higher-value work. Based in Chandler, Arizona, Rick combines a deep operational history dating back to early hardware days with a clear bias toward making data centers feel cloud-like through management tooling. Colleagues know him for demystifying complexity and for a wry, self-deprecating sense of humor that belies a long track record of hands-on systems delivery.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Findlay
Github Skills (43)
pan9
python-bindings8
binding8
panorama8
paloaltonetworks8
alto8
fabric8
minecraft8
index-html7
sdk7
pybind117
ifttt7
interaction6
pypi6
trinitycore6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xod442/stackstorm-aruba-fc
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
HewlettPackard/stackstorm-hpe-cfm
May 2019 - Jul 2019
StackStorm Pack for working with HPE Composable Fabric Manager
Contributions:45 commits, 14 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
minecraftcppfabricinfinibandstackstorm
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