Donald Johnson
Cloud Platform Manager
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Johnson is a Cloud Platform Manager with two decades of IT experience and over a decade focused on cloud, networking and automation across New Zealand and ANZ. He blends hands-on technical depth—network design, Arista migrations, Ansible and Python automation—with strategic leadership in platform transformation, cost reduction and vendor relations. Donald has a track record of building repeatable practices: documentation-first processes, CI/CD pipelines, and automation platforms that drove a NZ$1.2M revenue uplift through utility savings. He mentors teams to raise both technical and soft skills, fostering DevOps culture and long-term viable, simple solutions. Based in Christchurch, he combines deep carrier and data-centre networking experience with a passion for open-source and pragmatic DevOps engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Cashmere High SchoolipSpace Building Network Automation Solutions course
English
Github Skills (84)
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docker8
openflow8
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security-policy8
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golang7
unrar7
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letsencrypt7
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
johnsondnz/NetAutSol
Sep 2017 - Jul 2020
Building Automation Network Solutions Course
Contributions:1 review, 86 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 9 months
snmpbuilding-automationopenflownetwork-automationifttt
johnsondnz/container-images
Nov 2021 - Aug 2023
All my container images in one place
Contributions:6 PRs, 117 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
containersplacedocker-imagedockercontainer-images
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