Rik Schneider
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Auburn, California, United States
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RockstarRik Schneider is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of cloud and DevOps experience and a multi-decade background in UNIX and systems engineering. He currently helps deliver managed Spark as a service at Oracle, having previously scaled and automated infrastructure across companies like 8x8, TiVo, and PlayPhone. Rik specializes in automation, measurement, and operational tooling—building everything from AWS management utilities to trend collectors and config generators to simplify infrastructure lifecycle management. He has deep hands-on experience across global, multi-region environments and a practical focus on making complex systems easier to operate. A former Navy avionics technician, he brings disciplined troubleshooting and systems thinking to large distributed platforms. Based in Auburn, California, Rik combines pragmatic engineering with a long history of evolving operations practices from startup to enterprise scale.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
amazon9
cloudwatch9
cve8
carbon-emissions8
amazon-web-services8
vulnerability7
yaml7
dockerfile7
sca7
vulnerabilities6
database6
sre6
agent6
docker6
cost-optimization6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dawookie/dawookie.github.io
Jun 2014 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 12 pushes in 7 years 1 month
dawookie/schemahero
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
A Kubernetes operator for declarative database schema management (gitops for database schemas)
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
schema-managementcuelangdeclarativeoperatorkubernetes
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