David Norton
President at Platformers
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Norton is a seasoned software and platform engineering leader with 20 years of experience building cloud-native systems and guiding DevOps practices across retail, healthcare, finance, and hospitality. As President of Platformers and former Director of Platform Engineering at Object Partners, he has scaled consulting teams from a handful to 30+ engineers while serving as hands-on technical lead and advisor. He blends deep consulting experience with pragmatic engineering—helping clients move to reliable cloud platforms and improving how teams build software. Based in Minneapolis, he began his career helping create the original Zotero at George Mason University, an early indicator of his long-term commitment to developer tools and open engineering. Colleagues know him for hiring and developing strong engineers and for enjoying the craft of software design as much as its outcomes.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Science at Franciscan University of Steubenville
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Github Skills (97)
docker-logs10
docker-container10
organize10
syslog10
testing9
spring9
docker9
logging9
nashorn9
java9
spring-boot9
unit-test9
azure8
spock8
authentication8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
davidnortonjr/spock-javascript
May 2014 - Feb 2020
Example of using Spock to unit test your JavaScript on the JVM using Nashorn
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 10 months
spocktestingjavascriptunitjvm
davidnortonjr/continuous-gradle
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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