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Rick Davis
Infrastructure & DevOps Leader
Comprehensive leadership experience in architecture, design, and development of large-scale data center and edge infrastructure for highly performant, resilient, and distributed applications within Telco/Service Provider, Video Streaming, and FinTech/Blockchain industries.
Key Highlights
- Led team of SW & Data Engineers for analytics of 20M router & 200M Wi-Fi clients with ML & AI at Verizon
- Architecture & design of nationwide OTT & IPTV streaming service — 1000+ edge locations, 15+ Pbps throughput
- Built Active-Active containerized platform at Verizon Connect — 1.5+ year production with 100% uptime, 30d to 8hr deploy
- Server/Accelerator/GPU/Encoder evaluation saving $80M in capital costs
- Team leadership during rapid growth at Figment.io — 10 hires, 5 promotions, 1,300+ servers across 13 providers
- Designed & deployed production environment from scratch with zero-touch provisioning at Cube.Exchange
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