David Joos
Software Architect at Escape Technology
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Joos is a Software Architect based in London with 15 years of experience designing, building and operating web-scale applications and cloud-first infrastructure. He blends hands-on engineering with systems thinking—leading architecture, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code efforts while still shipping backend APIs, async workers and telemetry services. At Escape Technology he architected and built a Layer 2 cloud provider for VFX workloads, integrating render managers, remote workstations and billing microservices across public and private clouds. A pragmatic DevOps advocate, he has authored reusable Chef cookbooks and added multi-platform New Relic agent support, showing a strong operational focus beyond standard application development. His background spans PHP/Python/Go/Java stacks, CI like GoCD, and deep integrations with Salesforce and media pipelines, reflecting an appetite for complex, multidisciplinary systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Computer Science, Programming, BSc in Computer Science, Programming at Katholieke Hogeschool KempenMaya comprehensive, VFX pipeline, Maya comprehensive, VFX pipeline at Escape Studios
Dutch, English, Portuguese, French, German
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Github Skills (21)
configuration-management10
git-repository10
chef-client10
php10
repo-management10
management10
chef-solo10
repository-pattern10
java9
devops9
javas9
system-administration9
mongodb6
react6
go6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
djoos-cookbooks/newrelic
Apr 2012 - Apr 2022
Development repository for the newrelic cookbook
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:596 commits, 106 PRs, 241 pushes in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David's contributions centered on the New Relic cookbook for managing and deploying New Relic monitoring agents. They implemented features for configuring the PHP and Java agents, and setting up the server monitor. Furthermore, the user modified the infrastructure, including defining the repository, ensuring that the necessary dependencies were present, and incorporating support for operating systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, and CentOS. Finally, the user refined aspects of agent configuration, including incorporating PHP7 support, and also updated the code to integrate the "newrelic_yml" resource.
newrelic
djoos-cookbooks/phpdcd
Sep 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 tags in 4 years 11 months
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