Rikus Goodell
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.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A, B.A at Albion College
Github Skills (16)
whm10
cpanel10
security8
upstream5
filesystem4
gnu4
python4
perl4
linux3
perl-module3
command-line3
digitalocean2
cpan2
automation2
linode1
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
cpanel/mailman2-python3
Feb 2025 - Aug 2025
mailman2 ported for python3
Contributions:9 reviews, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 5 months
python
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