Hello, I'm
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 Product Analytics Cloud team for Verizon router telemetry across 20M routers and 200M Wi-Fi clients, designed for 1.5M TPS and 120TB/day ingest.
- Architecture and design of nationwide OTT and 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 and deployed production environment from scratch with zero-touch provisioning at Cube.Exchange.
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