I’m Rich Fenoglio, a senior infrastructure and cloud engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, stabilizing, and modernizing complex systems across cloud, hybrid datacenters, and highly regulated environments. I’ve repeatedly been brought into environments where systems, processes, or relationships were struggling and helped turn them into stable, scalable, and defensible platforms.
My background spans site reliability engineering, infrastructure architecture, security and compliance (FedRAMP, CMMC, PCI-DSS), and large-scale operations, with hands-on ownership of platforms ranging from AWS and VMware to HPC, identity systems, backup/DR, and security tooling.
Career Impact
Over my career, I’ve re-architected failing multi-site infrastructure platforms, automated compliance-critical workflows to reduce error rates by 98%, built and led a technical operation that scaled to 10 clients, 100+ managed locations, and 2,500+ endpoints across four datacenters with a four-person team, designed and delivered regulated cloud and HPC platforms with measurable performance gains, led audit modernization and cloud risk programs in large financial institutions, and helped early-stage and growing organizations scale through standardization and automation.
What differentiates me is not just technical depth, but how I operate across boundaries:
- translating risk and compliance requirements into practical engineering designs
- bridging audit, security, engineering, and business stakeholders
- surfacing risk, building consensus, and driving outcomes across organizational boundaries
- leading complex initiatives without relying on formal authority
Outside work, I enjoy spending time with my family, homelabbing, gaming, DIY house projects, and reading.