RICH-GOLDSTEIN

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
CORE COMPETENCIES
EXPERIENCE
Senior DevOps Engineer − NGNC Consulting
Senior DevOps Engineer − Arturo, Inc.
Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer − Tipico
DevOps / Cloud Engineer − NGNC Consulting
SRE / DevOps Engineer − Rackspace
SRE / DevOps Engineer − MapQuest / Verizon Location Services
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS
EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGIES
ENVIRONMENT
INTERESTS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
NOTES

NAME

Rich Goldstein − Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer / Unix Linux SysAdmin

SYNOPSIS

yes.sre.rich@gmail.com | (802) 473-1010 | www.awk2me.com
NYC Metro Area and Louisville, CO

DESCRIPTION

Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure. Expienced in AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. Proven record supporting developers, scaling platforms, and improving system reliability and performance.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, MSK, S3, VPC) and hybrid (AWS Outposts)

Container and Orchestration: Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, OpenShift, Docker

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation

CI/CD and Automation: Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible, SaltStack, CircleCI, Bosch

Observability and Monitoring: New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

Programming and Scripting: Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, Rust

EXPERIENCE

Senior DevOps Engineer − NGNC Consulting

Remote (NYC & Denver) − July 2023 — Present

Automated security and compliance workflows across AWS environments

Performed GitHub security audits and remediation

Supported Python developers using Django and Flask

Technologies: AWS, SaltStack, New Relic, Sentry, MySQL, Python, Ruby on Rails

Senior DevOps Engineer − Arturo, Inc.

Remote (NYC & Denver) − November 2022 — July 2023

Migrated legacy Kubernetes and EKS clusters to modern EKS platforms

Scaled worker nodes from single digits to over 1300 during processing workloads

Standardized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins shared libraries

Supported AI/ML teams running Airflow on AWS EKS

Automated infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Vault, and Consul

Implemented observability using Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, and Instana

Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer − Tipico

Remote (NYC & Denver) − November 2020 — November 2022

Deployed microservices-based sportsbook platform on AWS and AWS Outposts

Managed Kubernetes, Consul service mesh, Kafka (MSK), OpenSearch, ElastiCache

Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Fargate

Implemented monitoring and alerting across cloud environments

DevOps / Cloud Engineer − NGNC Consulting

NYC & Denver − April 2019 — November 2020

Supported Ruby on Rails and Node.js applications

Automated infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins

Operated Docker and Kubernetes platforms

SRE / DevOps Engineer − Rackspace

Remote / San Antonio, TX − April 2018 — March 2019

Worked under Google SRE model with equal focus on development and operations

Administered OpenStack and AWS environments

Automated operations using Python, Go, and Bash

SRE / DevOps Engineer − MapQuest / Verizon Location Services

Denver, CO − June 2017 — May 2018

Provided DevOps support for navigation APIs and data platforms

Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Terraform, Packer, and Chef

ADDITIONAL PROJECTS

Developed Rust-based tooling for infrastructure automation and internal platforms

Created developer tooling to standardize CI/CD workflows

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering
Stony Brook University (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY

TECHNOLOGIES

Operating Systems: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Alpine), BSD, Solaris

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis

Tools: Git, GitHub, Nexus, Artifactory, Nginx

ENVIRONMENT

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Linux, Git, Vim

INTERESTS

Technology, social causes, hiking, camping, skiing, woodworking, home improvement

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Terrorgrump Home Page

awk2me homepage

pdf version of this page

NOTES

Created several document and documentation systems for end users. Some are simple in implementation yet present full content at a fraction of the cost and use fewer resources, resulting in additional cost savings.

This page started out as an interesting effort to present resumes while allowing them to be updated with nothing more than a few basic toosl - github, {gtn}roff, make, homebrew (optional).

A result of this ’fancy’ was a local computer based, resume management system that allowed recruiters to travel, and carry around a small subset of resumes (active candidates, if you will) that can be pulled up as simply as typing man <candidate-name> installed by a simple homebrew formula (brew install <candidate-name>) and removed by another (brew uninstall <candidate-name>)