Rick Kellogg
Associate Principal Software Architect
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Kellogg is an Associate Principal Software Architect with 11 years of focused experience designing cloud-native, secure, and cost-conscious data platforms across healthcare, government, hospitality, and investigative domains. He blends deep expertise in AWS/Azure, Hadoop/Spark analytics, and FinOps tooling with practical security integrations (SAML, OAuth, Knox) to deliver scalable document-processing and text-analytics microservices. Rick has led large engineering teams and founded a company that built DOJ-grade litigation support and name-entity extraction products deployed on Hortonworks and AWS, and he frequently contributes to open-source security projects. Known for pragmatic architecture that balances analytics, messaging (Kafka/Camel), and operational automation (Terraform/Ansible), he also brings unusual depth in regulatory and audit-driven systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Maryland
English
Github Skills (81)
apache-storm10
authentication10
spring-security10
security10
streaming10
storm10
apache10
java10
spring-boot10
amazon10
spring10
oauth10
spoon9
big-data9
abstract-syntax-tree9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dqtools/spoon
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Spoon is a metaprogramming library to analyze and transform Java source code (up to Java 15). :spoon: is made with :heart:, :beers: and :sparkles:. It parses source files to build a well-designed AST with powerful analysis and transformation API.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
code-generationheartastparsersource-files
rmkellogg/cloudbreak-images
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Saltstack scripts to bake amazon/gcc/azure/openstack images suitable for Cloudbreak
Contributions:10 PRs, 29 pushes, 18 branches in 11 months
amazonsuitableopenstackazuresaltstack
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