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Ricky Burgin

SRE · Infrastructure · Security 🇬🇧→🇯🇵

Ricky Burgin

About Ricky

Engineer with experience across SRE, infrastructure, security and corporate IT.


With a broad, hands-on background spanning IT infrastructure, DevOps, cloud platforms, security and corporate IT, I bring practical technical experience to a wide range of systems and organizational contexts. I enjoy understanding how complex environments fit together and using that perspective to build reliable, secure and maintainable solutions.


I approach problems with curiosity and a solution-oriented mindset, working across functions, regions and cultures to turn technical challenges into clear, effective outcomes. I value knowledge sharing, thoughtful collaboration and continuous improvement, and aim to help create environments where technical excellence and innovation can thrive.


Japanese Language JLPT N1 certified and Japan permanent resident

Experience

16 yearsDevOps / Infra Engineering
7 yearsBusiness Management (UK)
3 yearsSecurity Engineering
3 yearsApplication Support
2 yearsCorporate IT

Technical Skills

Infrastructure

Linux
Networking
Email (Postfix, DKIM/DMARC)
PKI (x509, PGP etc)
Webservers (Apache, Nginx)
AWS
CI/CD (Jenkins, Concourse)
KVM/Xen Virtualization
Storage (ZFS, iSCSI etc)
Infra-as-Code (Terraform etc)
Docker
Databases (RDBMS, NoSQL)

Programming

Python
Go
Bash/Shell/Fish
Javascript (Node/Next/React)
Powershell
HTML/CSS
Machine Learning (FastAI)
LLMs (LLaMA, Deepseek)

Languages

NativeEnglish
FluentJapanese
ElementaryChinese

Other Things I Love

  • My daughter 👶
  • Flying Drones 🛸
  • Machine Learning (not just LLMs) 🤖
  • 3D Design / Printing 🖨️
  • Languages (🇯🇵流暢な日本語に加えて我也在学习中文🇨🇳)
  • Games 🎮
  • Travel ✈️
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