Ricky Burgin
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Ricky Burgin

SRE · Infrastructure · Security 🇬🇧→🇯🇵

Ricky Burgin

About Ricky

I’m an engineer based in Japan, with experience across infrastructure, DevOps, security and corporate IT. My work has included leading teams across APAC, migrating applications to AWS, and building the systems people rely on every day.

I enjoy understanding how systems fit together, getting to the root of difficult problems, and making things simpler to operate. I value practical solutions, clear communication and sharing what I learn.

I work in English and Japanese, hold JLPT N1 certification, and am a permanent resident of Japan.

Experience

16 yearsDevOps / Infra Engineering

7 yearsBusiness Management (UK)

3 yearsSecurity Engineering

3 yearsApplication Support

2 yearsCorporate IT

Job history

Technical Skills

Infrastructure

Linux100%
Networking90%
Email (Postfix, DKIM/DMARC)90%
PKI (x509, PGP etc)90%
Webservers (Apache, Nginx)90%
AWS80%
CI/CD (Jenkins, Concourse)80%
KVM/Xen Virtualization80%
Storage (ZFS, iSCSI etc)80%
Infra-as-Code (Terraform etc)75%
Docker70%
Databases (RDBMS, NoSQL)70%

Programming

Python70%
Go60%
Bash/Shell/Fish70%
Javascript (Node/Next/React)60%
Powershell50%
HTML/CSS60%
Machine Learning (FastAI)50%
LLMs (LLaMA, Deepseek)40%

Languages

NativeEnglish

FluentJapanese

ElementaryChinese

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