Rick Bowen
Code Maestro, Terminal Pilot, Blue Team Superhero
- Role
- Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rick Bowen
Hi, I\'m Rick! I\'m an accomplished Software Engineer with broad and deep expertise in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Shell (bash/zsh), Git, SQL & NoSQL Databases, Containers + Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud / Network / Application Security, Identity / Access Management, Linux, macOS/Darwin, CI/CD, SaltStack, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Internet Protocols, and much more.I value clean code, opinionated automation, excellent developer productivity experiences, and great documentation. I believe even though we spend our days in character terminal emulators and text editors, we should find satisfaction, enjoyment and elegance in both the ways we work and the realized output of that work.Outside of work, I am an avid Sci-Fi Audiobook listener, and continuously seek to expand my (physical) toolbox, and master my non-virtual skills in woodworking, machining, mechanics, plumbing, electrical, and gardening.
Experience
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Jun 2024 — Present · Santa Clara, CA, US
Architect, Built and Scaled Cloud-Native AI Security Platform as a Founding/Core Team Member for Palo Alto Networks new AI Runtime Security API Product, enabling cutting-edge AI & LLM Security as a Service.• Engineered cost-efficient Kubernetes-native architecture for vLLM and Triton AI/ML Inference Services.• Built & Evolved high performance AI/LLM Content Scanning Microservice APIs in Go.• Crafted fully automated Build and Deployment pipelines for AI Apps and Infra from development to production.• Elevate Product Team Security as the team \"Security Champion\", partnering with InfoSec to ingrain Secure SDLC practices, harden infra, perform Secure Architecture reviews, and liaison with internal audit for SOC2.
Education
College of Marin
English, Math, Chemistry
2000 — 2004
Skills
- Css
- Oracle
- Splunk
- Ajax
- Tibco
- Windows
- Bash
- Tcp/Ip
- Tivoli Access Manager
- Soap
- Web Services
- Network Administration
- F5 Bigip
- Tcl
- Perl
- Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
- Shell Scripting
- Sfdc
- Html
- Java
- C#
- .net
- Weblogic
- Tomcat
- Ssl
- Soa
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Solaris
- Javascript
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Xml
- Devops
- Sql
- Linux
- Asp.net
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