Rik Schneider

Rik Schneider is a seasoned professional with a passion for automation and measurement in managing infrastructure.

With a diverse educational background from Palo Alto High School, Junipero Serra High School, Fremont High School, and De Anza College, Rik has a strong foundation for his career.

Having worked at esteemed organizations such as 8x8 as a Staff DevOps Engineer, TiVo as a Principal Engineer in Production Services and Data Dev/Ops Engineer, PlayPhone as a Sr. System Engineer, ShareThis and Pinger as a Senior Operations Engineer, Apple Inc. as a UNIX System Administrator, Astreya Partners as a Systems Administrator, IMVU as an Operations Engineer, Edge Integration as Operations Manager, YellowBrix as Technical Operations Manager, and Weathernews in various capacities from Senior UNIX and Network Engineer to Manager of Information Systems and Technology, Rik has acquired a wealth of experience.

His career journey also includes roles at Net Asset as a UNIX Systems Administrator and in the US Navy as an Avionics Technician.

Rik Schneider's expertise lies in writing tools for managing AWS instances, trend collectors for BSD variants, and scripts for generating CFengine config files, all aimed at simplifying the infrastructure management process.