David Young
Owner at Kordia
Waikato, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Young is an owner and cloud-savvy infrastructure architect with 14+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient platforms across cloud, networking, virtualization and integrations. Based in Waikato, New Zealand, he combines entrepreneurial leadership at Funky Penguin with practical cloud wrangling at Kordia and past roles building enterprise infrastructure and containerised services. A pragmatic DevOps engineer, he has published practical guidance for self-hosted private clouds (including Ceph recipes, Docker-mailserver integration and CI/CD automation) and runs production services like a GKE-hosted TurtleCoin mining pool. He’s as comfortable authoring technical documentation and automation scripts as he is troubleshooting storage and networking at scale, and he brings an engineer’s curiosity—enjoying “shiny geeky toys”—to solving messy production problems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Hyde Park High School
English
Stackoverflow
179reputation
26kreached
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Github Skills (16)
docker10
self-hosting10
devops10
dockers10
cicd10
docker-compose9
bash8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
gitlab6
google-kubernetes-engine6
google-cloud-platform6
traefik6
haproxy6
gitlab-ci-runner6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
geek-cookbook/geek-cookbook
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
The "Geek's Cookbook" is a collection of guides for establishing your own highly-available "private cloud" and using it to run self-hosted services such as GitLab, Plex, NextCloud, etc.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 704 commits, 241 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on setting up and configuring infrastructure, including shared storage and CI/CD. They demonstrated expertise in Docker, implementing a recipe for Ceph. Furthermore, the user added a piwik tracking code and integrated Docker-mailserver. They also introduced scripts for auto-processing and various aliases, enhancing the project's automation capabilities.
cookbookgeeknextcloudplexnetdata
docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver-helm
May 2019 - Aug 2022
Kubernetes Helm chart for docker-mailserver
Contributions:7 reviews, 147 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 3 months
chartdocker-mailserverhelmhelm-chartdocker
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