Fred Richards
Kubernetes Staff Engineer at Rancher Labs
Town of Clifton Park, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Richards is a Kubernetes Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience building and supporting cloud-native and on-premises platforms, currently shaping SUSE Rancher’s enterprise offerings. He blends deep infrastructure, networking, and security knowledge (CCNP/Cisco Firewall background) with hands-on SRE, DevOps, and consulting practice to turn complex environments into reproducible customer solutions. A practical open-source advocate and platform engineer, he mentors teams, authors proofs-of-concept, and acts as a customer-facing liaison to accelerate adoption and troubleshoot at scale. Based in Clifton Park, NY, he’s known for distilling technical complexity into actionable guidance and for creating lab-driven mock environments that mirror real-world multi-cloud and KVM setups.
14 years of coding experience
CQS, Cisco Firewall Specialist / Security, CQS, Cisco Firewall Specialist / Security at Syracuse UniversityN/A, Computer Engineering/Electronics, N/A, Computer Engineering/Electronics at Onondaga Community College
Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
flrichar/general
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:37 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
flrichar/fleet-awesome
Mar 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:258 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
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