Dave Johnston

- Team lead responsible for delivering a new greenfield project @puppet. - Experience writing services in golang and deploying in both Swarm and Kubernetes environments - 9 years of experience developing carrier-grade software in the mobile telecoms industry. - Experience building solutions for the next generation of networks built on NFV. - Openstack experience, both building an Openstack cloud and orchestrating services on the platform. - Proficient in ANSI C++ and Java. - SCJP Certified - Unix based skills specifically working on Solaris and Linux platforms - Experience with virtualization technologies and cloud platforms. - Knowledge of Dev Ops techniques, specifically combing puppet and ENC such as the foreman to build and manage software deployments through there complete lifecycle. - Knowledge of developing for the cloud platform and adapting existing products to take advantage of cloud elasticity and high availability. As an engineer I have worked on a range of projects from developing greenfield systems to maintaining and improving legacy systems. Developed highly scalable systems capable of delivering high throughput.