Rick Scherer ☁

I engineer the technology strategies that power some of the world’s most demanding financial institutions, including North America's "Big Five" banks and leading global integrated payment networks. I specialize in bridging the gap between legacy banking infrastructure and modern, agile fintech ecosystems.

My mandate is to turn complex, 3-to-5-year strategic visions into funded, executable realities. I lead organizations through critical technological shifts—from architecting massive-scale private cloud environments to guiding strategic workload repatriation initiatives that optimize global infrastructure spend. I actively guide the refactoring of monolithic platforms into agile, cloud-native workloads, while implementing advanced, data-driven AI programs to modernize AML, fraud detection, and risk management frameworks.

I am a builder at heart with an operator's mindset. This pursuit of excellence is validated by rigorous elite credentials: I hold the distinction of being an Open Group Master Certified Architect and stand as one of the world's first VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX #21).

Outside of work, you’ll find me taking family road trips across the Southwest, turning wrenches in the garage, or hacking together home automation projects that thoroughly test the limits of my wife’s patience.