Richard van Buren

Richard Van Buren is a DevOps Engineer currently working at First Stop Health since September 2023. Previously, Richard held various positions at Rapid7 from May 2015 to August 2023, concluding as a Senior Platform Engineer where responsibilities included collaborating with developers on platform infrastructure, incident remediation, and writing runbooks for ElasticSearch, LogStash, and Cassandra alerts. Richard's earlier experience at Rapid7 also involved enabling database encryption, migrating infrastructure tools to Terraform, supporting AWS region launches, optimizing MySQL performance, and mentoring new engineers. Prior roles included Core Services Engineer at TripAdvisor, where responsibilities involved data center buildouts and corporate infrastructure management, and a Software Test Engineer at PHT Corporation. Richard holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology from Northeastern University.