Riley Belgrave
Staff Software Engineer I at Confluent
Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Belgrave is a Staff Software Engineer and platform-focused DevOps leader with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and automation platforms. He has led and grown Cluster-as-a-Service and Kafka-as-a-Service teams, designing Kubernetes Operators and automation that manage hundreds of clusters and petabytes of data with minimal human intervention. Riley's work has driven multi-cloud migrations and cost-saving moves that scaled cloud footprints and delivered measurable operational efficiencies. Colleagues rely on him to solve the “weird, complex, and out-of-the-box” incidents—three company-wide crises at UnitedHealth Group were resolved under his guidance. He prioritizes push-button APIs and Terraform-driven workflows that balance developer agility with guardrails to prevent common production mistakes. Based in Maple Grove, MN, he blends hands-on engineering with platform strategy to turn infrastructure complexity into self-service capabilities.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyNew York State High School Degree Engineering, New York State High School Degree Engineering at Newburgh Free Academy
English
Github Skills (200)
exporter10
scheduling10
automation10
k8s10
mesos10
client-library10
ecosystem10
self-healing10
hashicorp10
vault10
prometheus10
kubernetes-monitoring10
amazon-s310
assemble10
cryptography10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
rmb938/prometheus-operator-multi-arch
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Multi-Arch Images for https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator
Contributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 18 pushes in 27 days
prometheus-exportercoreosoperatormulti-archmulti-arch-images
rmb938/docker-py
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:62 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
api-clientapipythondockerpython3
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