Richard Boneff-Peng

Technical Leadership

• Provided insights as key member of Platform Team that consistently led to well-vetted, practical, and cost-effective solutions with high-impact across the organization
• Actively participated in Architecture Advisory Forum and created Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Collaborated closely with key engineering stakeholders to ensure the seamless launch of critical services, minimizing production issues and outages

Backstage Developer Portal

• Automated Kotlin microservice bootstrapping: deployed with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) created GitHub repositories with standardized settings
• TypeScript Google Sheets datasource plugin to reduce effort required to maintain catalog metadata

Ephemeral Environments

• Optimized sandbox environments for efficient, cost-effective use of available Kubernetes cluster resources
• Tracked metrics to generate reports providing costs breakdowns and projections to engineering leaders
• Created and maintained guides, technical documentation, video tutorials, and support tickets to drive adoption and elevate more engineers into power users
• Integrated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline to automatically rebuild environments on every push
• Services deployed into Kubernetes using Helm. Kotlin REST API and Ruby CLI interface. Terraformed RDS and Secrets Manager configurations

GitHub CI/CD

• Optimized costs and increased reliability using self-hosted runners
• Standardized CI/CD pipelines to increase observability, reliability, and reduce boilerplate. Stabilized trunk-based development trunk branches, improving Change Lead Time and Deployment Frequency by pushing E2E testing left, before releasing to lower environments
• Flexible convention over configuration architecture enabled incremental service migration to new pipeline
• Increased visibility and proactive action by surfacing issues to response teams as Slack messages
• TypeScript AWS Lambda function to export GitHub events to Datadog and Sumo Logic
• Developed custom TypeScript GitHub Actions and tested E2E workflow test automation using Act. Created Kotlin template repository as framework for building new services

Onboarding and Development Environments

• Architected to provide proactive support, automatically uploading failure logs to AWS S3 and sending Slack notifications for support triaging
• Automatically configured standard authentication to cloud infrastructure, accelerating rollout of new security practices such as AWS SSO
• Created architecture diagram and received feedback and buy-in from engineering stakeholders
• Collaborated with Security Team to ensure tools were vetted
• Integrated with Kandji MDM using shell scripts. Used Terraform Infrastructure as Code to define cloud resources

Operational Metrics Dashboard

• Gathered DORA metrics data using signals from GitHub and JIRA
• Presented to engineering leaders using Grafana Dashboard with predefined views
• Provided empirical data to track trends and quantify the impacts of organizational changes such as, ephemeral environments, release train, and team restructuring
• Drove accountability by integrating dashboards into Backstage as a single pane of glass used during Operational Reviews
• Evaluated and trialed existing SaaS products for cost-effectiveness relative to building an in-house solution

Consumer Channels

• Rails API backed by Postgres/RDS with React frontend
• Mentored teammates to promote solid architectural patterns, pragmatic agile practices, up-to-date documentation, thoughtful code reviews, and solid test coverage

Genomenon Mastermind

• Collaborated with Chief Science Officer to develop groundbreaking, interactive D3 genomic data visualizations and AngularJS search and curation interface. Improve genomic curation efficiency and breadth by several orders of magnitude, enabled geneticists to rapidly diagnose rare diseases
• Architected and built foundational Rails application backend and Go Elasticsearch proxy microservice
• Designed and optimized Elasticsearch NoSQL schemas for flexible, yet performant queries. Built data ingestion and indexing pipeline. Managed cluster of search nodes with Puppet
• Helped CTO scale the engineering team with interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and mentoring new engineers

Canopy Channels

• Acted as CTO helping guide project roadmap, hire and onboard developers, establish code quality standards and review processes, and provide startup business mentorship
• Architected and built cross-platform mobile and web app using Expo Web and React Native, powered by an Apollo GraphQL Ruby on Rails API. Stripe integration for subscription payments

letzgo

• As Founding Engineer, provided startup guidance and business mentorship to business owner. Assisted with market research, advertising, and incorporating feedback from real user testing
• Built native cross-platform mobile app using Expo and React Native powered by Ruby on Rails GraphQL API

Mi Padrino

• Developed Dockerized Python Flask application deployed to AWS EC2, integrated with Sendinblue automated email campaigns
• Acted as CTO, mentoring junior founding engineer with guidance on testing, documentation, and code quality standards

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