Cloud Platform Engineering Services

My career started as a games AI programmer and spanned a multitude of development teams. Most recently I have focused on DevOps and cloud infrastructure. Having recently completed two extensive projects for multinational clients I am now engaging contract opportunities.

Employers have regarded me highly for being flexible and delivering work to an excellent standard based years of industry experience including software development, customer facing consultancy and building/managing Agile development teams comprised of .Net & front-end developers, QA testers and designers.

RECENT SPECIALIST TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Azure, extensive configuration of resources including use of ARM templates and Azure Powershell/CLI cloud architecture including VM lifecycle, storage/message queues and full app deployments.

IAC Pipelines with Terraform, Ansible & PowerShell DSC

Kubernetes, AKS and Docker container configuration with Helm

Agile/Scrum full introduction of ceremony and tools such as Jira/Azure DevOps. Waterfall methodologies.

Windows Server & Linux (PowerShell and Bash)

SQL Server (Including TSQL and failover clusters) and NoSQL including Redis, Elasticsearch, SOLR

Web API, WCF, RESTful, Microservices and decoupled architecture

Experience of introducing, migrating multiple DevOps facilities including Jira, Git, ProGet/Nuget and numerous source safe, continuous integration/delivery tools. Extensive knowledge of Azure Devops/TFS, Jenkins, TeamCity and Octopus

Visual Studio

CMS, CRM, SharePoint/Teams

Web API, SOAP, REST etc.

Integration of analytics and monitoring solutions

Industry experience with C#, VB.Net, C++, C and Java .Net Framework and .Net Core

ASP.Net and MVC

Testing frameworks.

TDD, BDD and DDD concepts

Please see my Linkedin profile www.linkedin.com/in/dan-johnston-devops