Yves Richard
Senior Staff DevOps SRE Engineer at Obsidian Security
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolYves Richard is a Senior Staff DevOps/SRE engineer with two decades of software and infrastructure experience, currently consulting on platform migrations and developer experience productization. He specializes in Kubernetes, cloud-native systems, GitOps, and scalable CI/CD—having designed and delivered internal developer platforms, GitHub Actions harnesses, and Spacelift/Terraform patterns across startups and mid-market firms. Yves combines hands-on implementation (from K3D/EKS and FluxCD/Argo CD to Bazel-built CI producing distroless OCI images) with strategic platform advising, reducing friction and enabling self-serve delivery for product teams. He has repeatedly led migrations and standardization efforts that improved security posture, observability, and developer velocity. Based in Golden, BC, he pairs technical rigor with resilience and empathy learned from personal caregiving challenges, bringing calm leadership to high-stakes operational work. Outside engineering he’s a passionate fly fisherman, often drawing inspiration from the outdoors to solve complex technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering Technology, Avionics Maintenance Technology/Technician, Electronic Engineering Technology, Avionics Maintenance Technology/Technician at NBCC (New Brunswick Community College)
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
material-ui10
k8s10
batch-processing10
arcgis10
continuous-delivery10
pipeline10
argo10
versioning10
cicd10
react10
react-components10
continuous-deployment10
gitops10
esri10
docker10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tesera/datatheme-afgo-pgyi
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 78 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 10 months
albertainitiativeyield
tesera/datapackage-validator-awslambda
Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:38 pushes, 11 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
lambdaserverlessaws-lambdaawsvalidating
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