Rikus Goodell
Developer III at cPanel
Katy, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRikus Goodell is a pragmatic Developer III with 12 years of software engineering experience and a decade-long tenure at cPanel, where he progressed from Developer I to III and led release rotations. He specializes in Perl, Linux system administration, CI/CD and automation for VM image publishing across major cloud marketplaces using tools like Packer, Terraform, Jenkins, and GitLab CI. His work blends maintenance of large, production-critical codebases with feature development, test automation (Selenium), and security-minded change review practices. Comfortable across CentOS, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, he brings deep familiarity with the web hosting ecosystem and virtualization. Prior experience building high-throughput Perl data pipelines in warehouse operations gives him a knack for resilient, bulk-data processing under real-time constraints. He’s based in Katy/Houston and even clarifies the pronunciation of his name’s first syllable as “ree,” a small detail that makes collaborations smoother.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A, B.A at Albion College
Github Skills (24)
hsts10
cpanel10
whm10
upstream9
security8
azerothcore6
filemaker5
tar4
perl4
perl-module4
gnu4
marketplace3
tarball3
filesystem3
cpan2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cpanelrikus/addon_securityadvisor
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Security Advisor for cPanel & WHM (LC fork)
Contributions:10 PRs, 20 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 2 months
advisorsecurity-toolssecuritycpanelwhm
CpanelInc/addon_securityadvisor
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
Security Advisor for cPanel & WHM (canonical upstream repo)
Contributions:43 commits, 14 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 years 6 months
advisorsecuritycpanelupstreamwhm
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