Josh King
Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Greater Napier-Hastings Area New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh King is a Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer and Microsoft MVP with 11 years’ experience building resilient Windows and VMware infrastructure, currently driving operations at Chocolatey Software from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. He blends hands-on DevOps and CI/CD expertise—especially TeamCity and script signing—with deep PowerShell automation skills, contributing to high-profile Chocolatey projects and the popular BurntToast PowerShell module for Windows notifications. Josh’s career progression from PC support to senior automation roles shows a practical focus on reliability, repeatable builds, and secure release pipelines. Known as the “walking helpdesk,” he pairs a user-centric support mindset with automation-first engineering, often solving thorny edge cases like silent notifications and actionable toast events. Outside of work he balances family life with community contributions, reflecting pragmatic engineering and a preference for practical, well-documented solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Information and Communication Technology, Diploma of Information and Communication Technology at Eastern Institute of Technology
Github Skills (24)
teamcity10
windows10
toasts10
cicd10
chocolatey10
toast10
notification10
build-automation10
powershell10
package-development9
code-signing9
plugin-development9
drupal-module9
package-management8
api-design7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Windos/BurntToast
Jul 2015 - Oct 2022
Module for creating and displaying Toast Notifications on Microsoft Windows 10.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 380 commits, 76 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh appears to be a back-end developer primarily focused on building and improving a PowerShell module for creating and displaying toast notifications on Windows 10. The user's contributions include the initial implementation of the module, converting a script into a module structure, adding features such as aliases, validation, and sound options. The user also addressed silent notification support and incorporated event handling for actionable notifications.
windowstoast-notificationspowershellnotificationsnotification-center
chocolatey/choco
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh's commits primarily focus on modifying and enhancing the project's build and CI/CD configurations using TeamCity and related scripting. They added features such as a schedule trigger and QA builds, alongside adjustments to docker builds. Furthermore, the user integrated new build configurations for script signing and templated notifications, thereby streamlining the project's build and release processes.
windows-serverchocolateywindowspowershellpackage-manager
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