Rick Rainey
Software Engineering Manager at R1 RCM
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRick Rainey is a seasoned software engineering manager with 12 years in engineering leadership and over two decades of hands-on development, currently leading teams at R1 RCM from Dallas. He brings deep Azure expertise from multiple senior roles at Microsoft—architecting cloud solutions for Fortune 500 customers, building cloud adoption programs for GSIs, and enabling federal agencies to migrate legacy and cloud-native workloads to Kubernetes. A pragmatic engineer who still contributes code, Rick has made notable open-source contributions to the Azure SDK for Rust, improving storage blobs, key vaults, datalake features, and error handling. He combines operational leadership with developer evangelism and training experience, having co-founded an Azure training company and run consulting practices. Known for translating complex architectures into practical proofs-of-concept, he excels at unblocking cloud adoption and upskilling teams. His background spans low-level debugging and decades of multi-language development, giving him uncommon breadth from systems and C++ to modern cloud-native stacks.
13 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (26)
azure-sdk10
azure-keyvault10
wcf10
vault10
azure10
rust10
data-lake10
azure-storage9
azure-active-directory9
authentication9
microsoft-azure9
asp-net-mvc9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
This repository is for the active development of the Azure SDK for Rust. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting Docs.rs and looking up the docs for any of libraries in the SDK.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rick contributed significantly to the Azure SDK for Rust, particularly in the storage blobs and key vault services. Their work included implementing functionality to set blob access tiers, creating a comprehensive example for creating keys, and adding a 'get_status' function to the datalake file client. Furthermore, the user made various changes including migrating the sdk/storage_blob to azure_core::error scheme and providing additional access control list for data lake files. This suggests a focus on enhancing existing functionalities and improving error handling within the Azure SDK ecosystem.
azure-sdkrustazuremicrosoftrust-lang
rickrain/AppServiceDemo
Oct 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 5 years 6 months
azure-functionsazure-app-serviceazureapp-serviceazure-web
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