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Randall Mawhinnie

@randallmawhinnie

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I lead reliable, AI-ready data platforms across cloud infrastructure, search, and SRE.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead data platform, cloud, SRE, and AI-ready enterprise data initiatives where reliable systems, governed access, and strong engineering operating models matter.

At Bentley Systems, I lead 30+ engineers across SRE, infrastructure, and platform engineering for ProjectWise Cloud. I set technical direction for Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, data platforms, enterprise search, reliability, and multi-region production architecture.

I’ve delivered enterprise retrieval with Apache Tika, Elasticsearch, vector search, and RAG; planned a 140 TB cross-cloud migration; and reduced P1 incidents by roughly 70% while cutting MTTR from 120 to 30 minutes. Earlier, at Virtustream and Dell EMC, I worked on object storage supporting Apple iCloud at roughly 140 exabytes and automated bare-metal infrastructure bootstrap.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Director SRE Operations and Platform Engineering

Current

Bentley Systems

Jan 2020 - Present (6 years 8 months)

Lead 30+ engineers across SRE, infrastructure, and platform engineering, setting priorities and technical standards. Own reliability and scalability for ProjectWise Cloud, and led enterprise full-text retrieval and migration of roughly 140 TB of data across Azure and GCP.

SRE Platform Engineering Azure GCP Kubernetes AKS Azure SQL Elasticsearch Apache Tika Vector Search RAG MCP Observability OpenTelemetry Grafana CI CD Infrastructure as Code FedRAMP

Site Reliability and Cloud Engineering Leadership

Virtustream / Dell EMC

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020 (4 years 11 months)

Progressed from software and site reliability engineering into cloud and platform leadership for high-scale enterprise infrastructure and distributed systems. Worked on EMC object-storage infrastructure supporting Apple iCloud at roughly 140 exabytes and automated bare-metal rack bootstrap.

SRE Distributed Systems Automation Observability Performance Failure Domains