Rick Spencer
General Manager Engineering at SUSE
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Spencer is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling distributed, user-centered software teams across Linux, cloud-native, and AI infrastructure. Currently General Manager Engineering at SUSE, he has led flagship products like SUSE Linux Enterprise, SLES for SAP, and innovations in AI-assisted infrastructure management. Rick blends deep product and platform expertise—from storage engines and multi-region Kubernetes at InfluxData to worldwide OS delivery at Canonical—with a disciplined focus on quality, predictability, and user experience rooted in his Human Factors background. He’s comfortable running large, geographically distributed organizations and multi-million dollar programs while keeping engineering practices practical and outcomes-driven. A Washington, D.C.-based leader, he often brings uncommon cross-disciplinary insight from philosophy and human factors to technical strategy and team culture.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Human Factors Engineering, M.A., Human Factors Engineering at George Mason UniversityBA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at Earlham College
French, Spanish
Github Skills (147)
timeseries-database10
windows10
telegraf10
grafana10
faunadb10
xpath10
influxdb10
flask10
monitoring10
mqtt10
influx10
golang10
rust10
dart10
scalable10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rickspencer3/shoots
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:56 PRs, 161 pushes, 61 branches in 1 year 1 month
rapido-mobile/rapido-flutter
Oct 2018 - Feb 2020
Library for RAD development in Flutter
Contributions:299 commits, 81 PRs, 169 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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