Steve Richards
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Mirantis
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Richards is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with two decades of IT experience, currently leading reliability work for Mirantis' Lens Engineering team and previously shaping cloud and CI/CD strategy at Docker and LeftShift. He combines deep payments and transaction-processing expertise (BASE24, EMV, ATM stacks, scheme certifications) with modern DevOps practices—Docker, cloud platforms, deployment orchestration and automated testing—to bridge legacy financial systems and cloud-native delivery. Steve has moved between hands-on roles (architecture, development, QA, production support) and client-facing solution design, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on lifecycle and environment management. He’s known for implementing test automation and test data management at scale, and for driving process improvements that increase reuse and quality across large outsourced and transformation programmes. Based in Greater Brighton, he keeps technical skills current and applies practical experimentation with new development and QA methodologies to boost productivity in conservative, mission-critical payments environments.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Wrenn School
Github Skills (164)
bitnami10
cloud-native10
k8s10
charts10
helm10
kubernetes10
kubernetes-ui10
documentation10
docker10
docker-image10
kubernetes-dashboard10
vmware10
mkdocs10
k0s10
logging10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lensapp/lens-extension-samples
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
Lens Extension API Samples
Contributions:18 commits, 9 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 months
lens-extensionapilens
stevejr/demo-upptime
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 29 days
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