Richard is a veteran software engineer with more than 15 years experience architecting and coding solutions to deep technical challenges. He specializes in cloud architecture, cloud migration, cloud optimization, and custom web and mobile application development. Richard has instructed hundreds of students through Boulder Digital Arts, University of Colorado, and is currently an Authorized AWS Instructor, teaching Amazon Web Services certification tract courses to Fortune 500 companies across the country. When not coding or teaching others, you can find him playing with his baby girl or camping somewhere deep in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.