David Young
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Hi, I'm David.
I've spent 20+ years working with technology.
I'm a contracting IT consultant, with a broad range of experience and skills. I'm an AWS Certified Solution Architect (Professional), a remote worker, I've written a book, and I blog on topics that interest me.
I'm interested in applying my skills (and curiosity) to short and long-term opportunities, both locally and remotely.
My most recent role was Senior Infrastructure Architect at Prophecy Networks Ltd in New Zealand, with a specific focus in networking, systems, open-source, IaaS, and business management.
Skills
- IP Networking
- Security
- DNS
- Load Balancing
- High Availability
- SaaS/PaaS/IaaS
- Blockchain
- training
- technical writing
- root-cause analysis
- incident management
Creations
A collection of projects created by David, and typically shared with the world.
Funky Penguin's Geek Cookbook
Funky Penguin's Geek Cookbook ...is a collection of guides for establishing your own highly-available docker container cluster (swarm). This swarm enables you to run self-hosted services such as GitLab, Plex, NextCloud, etc..
NZ TurtleCoin Mining Pool
Bandersnatch - Jabber Conversation Logger
Coffee In The Rain
Funky Penguin's Geek Cookbook ...is a collection of guides for establishing your own highly-available docker container cluster (swarm). This swarm enables you to run self-hosted services such as GitLab, Plex, NextCloud, etc..
Open Source Contributions
Whenever possible, I like to contribute back to open source projects I come across. Sometimes my only contribution is a typo in a README, but as a maintainer of my own projects, I know that every little contribution boosts my motivation to keep working on the (volunteer) project!
Microservice-based Cryptocurrency Mining Pools
I started dabbling in mining pools with Docker, and ended up maintaining a popular nodejs application, and a mini-empire of Kubernetes-driven mining pools!
pfSense VPN export naming
I submitted a PR to the pfsense-packages team to simplify the way OpenVPN configs are exported
Publications
A collection of books, manuals, articles, interviews, presentations or talks I’ve worked on
interview - TurtleCoin Interview
book - phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager
manual - JAJC (Jabber Client) Manual
Experience
Senior Infrastructure Architect
Senior management position with overall responsibility for architectural design and delivery of internal and customer platforms. Delivered architectural design into production within NZ-based mobile telco.
Technical Account Manager - Infrastructure Services
Provide management and leadership for all Prophecy Networks group infrastructure that is used internally and provides services to customers.
Infrastructure Manager
Management of systems, improvement to service delivery to both internal users and external customers through investing in processes, policies, and documentation.
Senior Engineer
Provide engineering skills and support to a wide range of clients as well as platforms supporting ISP business.
Chief Penguin
Performed contracted consulting work specifically targeting Linux-based server platforms. Developed PHP/MySQL-based online portal for digital retrieval of monthly rates invoices for City of Ekurhuleni, delivered and managed virtualized server platform for Chas Everitt International Property Group.
Live-in Boarding House Master
I was one of several house masters who lived in the boarding house, had rostered responsibilty to manage one of the boys boarding houses.
IT Engineer
Started as helpdesk engineer, ended up redesigning 13-site mail platform to use qmail-ldap cluster, managing 64k bandwith per site (yes!) with squid transparent proxy and sarg reports.