Rich Walkup is a Director, Platform Engineering at Help Scout. He possess expertise in web development, web services, business analysis, data modeling, database design and 41 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Rich is a rockstar, and proved reliable in many different roles across the development of Kasasa Loans. He demonstrated great leadership in a difficult project situation, ultimately taking on development of a previously unplanned piece of work that was critical for overall engagement success. On a very short timeline, with limited resources, he pulled it off! " and "Expert software engineer. DevOps. Systems architect. I've seen Rich excel in a variety of roles, it's amazing to watch him work. He has a passion for building great systems using the latest technology and techniques. Whether it was converting our systems to Laravel, migrating hosts to AWS, or automating our DevOps with Jenkins and Ansible, he was successful at any task thrown his way. I would hire him again in a heartbeat."