Andrew Rich

Indie mobile app studio building React Native apps for iOS and Android. Current release: Kebab — an AI-powered charitable donation tracker and valuation tool, launched in December 2025 in response to Intuit discontinuing ItsDeductible mid-tax year. 300+ daily active users within the first ten weeks, with paying subscribers, built part-time as a one-person studio. Also available for freelance website and resume consulting engagements.

* Daily operations tasks for system integrity and availability * Technology upgrades (Citrix, Linux, WebSphere, related technologies) * Monitoring for applications and servers, alarm and incident response * Collaborate with project managers and other technical teams * Drive design of features and subsystems, ensuring operational readiness and excellence

* Led the SRE-Federal team in launching Meraki’s FedRAMP initiative to bring Meraki Dashboard into federal compliance in 2023: defined team processes, operations, and maintenance procedures. * Initiated development, maintenance, and execution of audit verification procedures for the SRE-Scalability team, achieving consistent PCI certification for Meraki. * Ensured availability and reliability of Meraki Dashboard and enabled developers to execute deployments. * Maintained and upgraded the entire Meraki infrastructure, focused on continuous improvement. * Leveraged system knowledge as part of on-call rotations.

Short-term (two month) contract doing Build & Release / DevOps projects.

* Spearheaded formal Build/Release team in partnership with a colleague; documented processes, designed automation to replicate it at scale with reproducibility and verifiability, and brought processes up to modern standards. Ultimately achieved fully automated build/release processes needing minimal intervention. * Maintained and enhanced continuous integration and continuous build systems for mobile and desktop apps on six platforms. * Built a centralized dashboard to pull feature-flag data from source control and build logs and present them in a user-friendly format for the web team to understand which flags were enabled/disabled easily; recognized with an internal engineering award for efforts. * Supported QA and Engineering teams’ infrastructure needs, continuously improved and upgraded infrastructure and technologies, and handled on-call responsibilities.

* Rolled out new company-wide installation of CollabNet Subversion Edge; migrated existing legacy subversion repositories; implemented LDAP user authentication to new server. * Implemented automatic Perforce server license updating system. * Administered, managed and updated company-wide installation of Atlassian suite (Hipchat, Jira, Confluence). * Implemented continuously-updating list of virtual environments.

* Designed, built and maintained automation for distribution of the Enyo framework, and related (and unrelated) tasks. * Built distribution and installation tools for webOS SDK for use by third-party application developers.

Responsibilities included: * Administration and maintenance of the vBulletin-based discussion board system. * General Web site maintenance including both user-visible and backend components. * Post-publication proofreading and corrections as needed. * Writing occasional articles and weekly news updates.

* Maintained and enhanced custom automated build systems. * Designed, developed, and maintained internationalized InstallShield projects for OVI Files products with several OEM-branded versions. * Administered and managed CVS and SVN systems.

Build master, install programmer and CVS administrator for a mobile networking/file-sharing startup. Responsibilities included: * Maintain and enhance the custom automated software build system. * Design, develop and maintain internationalized InstallShield projects for the main product with several OEM branded versions. * Administer and maintain the CVS source code repository system. * Administer and maintain the MSDN subscription and CD library. * Promoted to Senior Release Engineer upon acquisition of Avvenu by Nokia in December 2007 (see Senior Release Engineer position above).