Richard Deng

I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable cloud and full-stack systems with a strong focus on DevOps, automation, and AI-driven platforms. I’m passionate about making cloud infrastructure reliable while improving developer workflows through thoughtful platform engineering.

Since April 2020, I’ve built cloud-native infrastructure across 20+ services using AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. I develop CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD to support reliable build, testing, and deployment workflows for distributed microservices used by 10+ engineering teams.

I containerize and scale backend services across Kubernetes clusters, deploying APIs and AI inference services that handle millions of requests per month. I design infrastructure automation with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation to simplify provisioning across development and production systems.

I also focus heavily on observability and reliability—implementing Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry to improve visibility and help maintain 99.9%+ service uptime. Beyond operations, I’ve built data pipelines using AWS Lambda, S3, and Kafka while integrating PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis, and I mentor engineers on modern DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, and containerized deployments.