John Knightly
Nerd at Knightly Consulting
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Knightly is a cloud and networking specialist with over eight years at Microsoft driving Azure architecture, Kubernetes, Linux, and security initiatives for strategic global customers. He has a track record of turning complex edge and rack-scale projects into production-ready platforms, including leading Nexus/Azure Local deployments and integrating containerized network functions on pre-release hardware. As a Principal technical leader he built enterprise guidance—Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and Well-Architected frameworks—and reduced threat-model review effort by 80% through Copilot automation. Based in Phoenix, he blends hands-on systems work (racking, Arista configs, Azure Linux) with customer-facing solution design and high-CSAT consultancy. Now leading Knightly Consulting, he continues to push resilient, cost-optimized cloud networking and security solutions while emphasizing high quality and integrity. A background stretching from systems administration at Iridium to senior roles at Insight and Zenity gives him rare end-to-end visibility across operations, architecture, and security.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), IT Management, Bachelor of Science (BS), IT Management at Western International University
Github Skills (6)
microsoft-azure10
security7
azure7
aws6
terraform5
powershell1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jknightly/cloud-adoption-framework
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Cloud Adoption Framework
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
adoptioncloud-adoptioncloud-adoption-frameworkcloudterraform
jknightly/armtemplates
Mar 2016 - May 2025
Contributions:1 branch in 9 years 3 months
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