Daniel Scott-raynsford
Partner Technology Strategist
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Scott-raynsford is a Partner Technology Strategist at Microsoft with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, delivering and running applications and infrastructure, and a decade of focused enterprise cloud and DevOps practice leadership. He specializes in Microsoft technologies, Azure, infrastructure-as-code (ARM, Terraform, DSC, Chef) and automation with deep expertise in PowerShell and Desired State Configuration, complemented by CI/CD tooling like Azure DevOps, Jenkins and GitHub. Daniel has led release engineering and continuous delivery transformations across healthcare and insurance sectors, helping teams adopt modern delivery practices while coaching and mentoring engineers to accelerate value delivery. He is an active open-source contributor and blogger in the PowerShell/DSC community, maintaining several projects that underpin his practical automation work. Based in Auckland, he blends long-term systems engineering experience with strategic partner-facing roles, uniquely combining low-level automation craftsmanship with enterprise cloud strategy.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Auckland Grammar SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Auckland
English
Github Skills (46)
hyper-v10
dsc10
powershell-dsc10
networking10
powershell-module10
simple-xml10
mutex9
vfs9
configuration-file9
xml9
powershell9
xml-configuration8
persistent8
hyper8
windows8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tailwindtradersdsr/tailwindtraders-webapp
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:14 reviews, 25 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 months
dscottraynsford/CosmosDB
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
PowerShell Module for working with Azure Cosmos DB databases, collections, documents, attachments, offers, users, permissions, triggers, stored procedures and user defined functions.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
storedmicrosoftstored-procedurespowershellcosmos-db
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