John Daniels
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
Github Skills (15)
anonymous9
python7
adblock6
ads6
advertising6
blocking6
loops5
go5
minecraft4
orange3
open-source3
naming3
javascript2
keybase1
gis1
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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