John Daniels
DevOps Engineer at The Electric Engine Ltd.
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJohn Daniels is a seasoned DevOps engineer with 17 years of experience turning "pet" servers into automated, resilient infrastructure across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Based in Edinburgh, he has led major migrations, multi-provider staging deployments, and high-volume email delivery at scale using tools like Chef, Postfix, Nginx and AWS. He runs a small contracting company and brings practical sysadmin roots—having used Linux since the 20th century and maintaining a home lab of half a dozen to ten machines—to every engagement. Known for pragmatic automation and operational ownership, he prefers remote work and values well-paid, hands-on roles over trendy office perks. An experienced troubleshooter, he combines deep operational knowledge with occasional Ruby development and training for teams.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
anonymous10
ads7
adblock7
advertising7
python6
blocking6
golang5
open-source4
minecraft4
orange3
naming3
loops3
javascript2
gis2
installer2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johnd/cv
Apr 2010 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 7 years 1 month
johnd/server-name
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 months
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