Rich has had the fortune to work for great organizations and with even better people throughout his career. He was an early-adopter of DevOps recognizing the opportunity to move Ops out from under just being a cost-center to a key contributor to help companies accelerate business objectives. A majority of his career has been building data-driven DevOps teams for SaaS in the online advertising space (Nativo, Fox, MySpace), but also has held roles within Corporate IT (Nestle and EMC). He has a passion for automation, observability and monitoring systems. He has been an Elastic Community Leader and organizer for the Elastic LA Meetup since 2015

 

Presentations

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Shifting Ops Left - A DevOps Journey

DevOps is not one size fits all. DevOps is a journey that should evolve to meet the business needs. Throughout my career, I have always worn some type of Ops hat from Help Desk, System Administration to Sr Director of DevOps. A common thread within these roles has been to get Ops involved sooner, be part of the process and not be the bottleneck. In this talk, I am going to give a DevOps perspective from the Ops side. I will share my experiences and lessons learned that have shaped my approach to DevOps.

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ELK to Elastic Stack: a Journey of 3+ Years in Production

The ELK was the first system I implemented at Nativo in Mar '14.  Elastic Stack is now a critical system. We will not deploy to production without the visibility that the Elastic Stack provides. Elastic Stack is ingesting over 30 Application generating 150M documents and consuming 225GB daily across four AWS regions 

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