David Thompson
Infrastructure Developer at IBM
Stratford-on-Avon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Thompson is a seasoned Infrastructure Developer with over two decades of commercial UNIX/Linux experience and a security clearance, specialising in Solaris, HP-UX and RHEL/CentOS deployments across public and private sectors. He delivers PaaS/IaaS solutions and DevOps engineering—recently focusing on GlusterFS, Ceph, OpenShift, OpenStack and Ansible while consulting for DXC and IBM. David combines hands-on systems engineering (virtualisation, packaging, performance tuning) with strong process discipline in documentation, standards and ITIL-driven operations. He has led global UNIX estates and migration projects, authored SOEs and contributed to enterprise reference architectures, demonstrating both tactical troubleshooting and strategic infrastructure design. Comfortable in both contractor and embedded team roles, he’s known for automating repetitive tasks with careful shell scripting and for thriving in secure, high-stakes environments. Based in Stratford-on-Avon with a BSc in IT & Engineering, he brings uncommon depth in legacy UNIX platforms alongside modern cloud-native tooling.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) 2:1, IT & Engineering, BSc (Hons) 2:1, IT & Engineering at De Montfort University
Github Skills (148)
burp10
quarkus-extension10
hat10
language-server-protocol10
visual-studio10
eclipse10
odo10
editor10
intellij-plugin10
yaml10
ls10
kubernetes10
selenium-webdriver10
electron10
typescript10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
datho7561/vscode-java
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
Java Language Support for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:66 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 2 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionlanguage-javalanguage-support
datho7561/vscode-openshift-tools
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
OpenShift extension for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:2 PRs, 566 pushes, 207 branches in 1 year 10 months
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