Richie Lombano
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Professional Summary
Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering leader who champions high-impact initiatives to build successful SRE organizations. I prioritize GitOps, self-service, and observability to deliver secure, reliable platforms that empower Product and Engineering teams with full ownership over the services they deliver.
Skills
GitOps & Infrastructure
Kubernetes - 5 years
Terraform - 10 years
ArgoCD - 5 years
Cloud Platforms
AWS - 6 years
GCP - 6 years
Azure - 6 years
CI/CD
Secure pipelines - 7 years
GitHub Actions - 7 years
GitLab CI - 6 years
Observability
Datadog - 5 years
Opentelemetry - 5 years
Tracing & APM - 5 years
Software Engineering
Python - 9 years
Secure SDLC - 5 years
React & Next.js - 1 years
Leadership & Agile
Mentoring - 5 years
leading SRE teams - 5 years
Agile methodologies - 9 years
Experience
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Solar Mosaic
Oct, 22 - Present
Spearheaded key initiatives to enhance our platform's stability and efficiency. Reduced Kubernetes node count by 75% and cloud costs by 50%, saving $600,000 annually and significantly improving service availability. I lead our CI/CD and infrastructure architecture and actively contribute to the health and security of our services. Collaborated with the application architecture committee to help design and approve reference architectures. Currently, I'm leading the development of our internal developer platform, aiming to streamline self-service golden paths for our engineering teams....see more
Highlights:
- Migrated from kOps to EKS with Karpenter Autoscaling
- Modernized API Gateway w/ NGINX & ingress-nginx
- Led Platform engineering initiative to build a self-service portal for engineers that improved developer velocity
- Owned CI/CD for secure SDLC workflows and Observability best practices
- Deployed Keycloak to replace expensive Salesforce Login implementation
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Panzura
Jan, 21 - Oct, 22
Improved the DevOps culture at Panzura by integrating tooling and policies designed to help Product teams release faster while maintaining high security standards. Leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, self-service, and an overall shift-left mentality wherever possible. Leading a team of three engineers....see more
Cloud Engineer
Vology
Nov, 16 - Apr, 20
Highlights:
- Designed and migrated customer IT infrastructure to public cloud
- Defined reference architectures for Azure offerings
Jr. Systems Engineer
RobbinsKersten Direct
Dec, 15 - Nov, 16
Managed post-acquisition IT setup and built secure infrastructure and workflows.
Highlights:
- Windows Server infrastructure design
Systems Support
Lincare Holdings, Inc.
Apr, 14 - Dec, 15
Managed deployment and support for thousands of workstations and servers, ensuring HIPAA compliance.
Subcontractor (Part Time)
Elite Networks
Jan, 11 - Apr, 14
Provided IT support and maintained infrastructure and uptime for hosted services.
Education
Associate of Arts
Pasco-Hernando Community College
Aug, 10 - Dec, 13
Projects
Agent Based AI Chatbot
An agentic AI chatbot designed to work with an IRC channel.
Resume Pipeline
A simple pipeline to generate my resume in various formats using the popular project, JSON Resume. This allows me to keep my resume up to date with minimal effort and ensure it's consistant across all platforms.
Resume Website
My resume website rendered with Next.JS and Tailwind CSS. An expansion of my previous project that uses modern web frameworks.