RC

I’m Richard Crowley.
I manage secure, reliable, and compliant Internet-scale systems.

I led operations engineering at Slack from 2014 through 2020, through 100x growth in employees and 1,000x growth in connected users. I know what it takes to use AWS at the highest level and what it takes to give comfort to the most risk-averse customers. (And I remember a few tricks from Square, OpenDNS, and Flickr, too.)

Since 2020, I’ve poured everything I know about using AWS properly into Substrate. AWS Organizations and lots and lots of AWS accounts, OAuth OIDC identity providers, IAM roles and policies, VPC networks and sharing, and all the subtle yet security-critical details that make them all sing in harmony. Substrate is for startups that can’t afford to compromise flexibility or security and can’t afford to wait.

Drop me a line at rcrowley@rcrowley.org.

Writin’

I chronicle the struggles, triumphs, and minutiae of each Substrate release in Release Notes Notes.

The rest of my writing about software architecture, AWS, Go, Linux, and a long, long tail of other topics is in the index.

Internetin’

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