Josh Duffney
Software Engineer
Bellevue,NE
Summary
Experienced software engineer with a strong background in Go programming and specialization in cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration. Former Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management and an active open-source contributor.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Cloud Advocate (Cloud-native)
Microsoft
Remote, NE
2022.07 - Current
- Contributed to Open-Source Projects: Submitted 20 pull requests and developed three major features for the Ratify project, while maintaining the Notation Action GitHub Action, driving improvements and fostering community collaboration.
- Presented at Industry Events: Delivered live presentations at Microsoft Build and KubeCon NA, focusing on securing the software supply chain using open-source tools and Azure, emphasizing best practices for enhancing security in cloud-native environments.
- Engaged with WebAssembly Community: Co-hosted over 30 livestreams, focusing on WebAssembly and WASI, contributing to the open-source community by teaching developers how to leverage WASM workloads on Azure.
Senior Technical Writer
Microsoft
Remote, NE
2021.01 - 2022.07
- Launched the Go on Azure Development Center: Spearheaded the creation and launch of the Go on Azure Development Center, providing developers with essential resources, documentation, and best practices. This initiative resulted in a 300% increase in traffic to Azure docs for the Go SDK.
- Collaborated with Go SDK Development Team: Partnered with the Go SDK development team to streamline and enhance SDK documentation, achieving 95% coverage for the most commonly used packages.
- Mentored Junior Technical Writers: Provided guidance and best practices to junior technical writers, resulting in a 20% improvement in documentation quality scores and fostering professional growth across the team.
Site Reliability Engineer
Stack Overflow
Remote, NE
2020.06 - 2021.01
- Containerized Stack Overflow Enterprise deployments: Achieving a 40% reduction in deployment time.
- Developed an application configuration store to simplify Terraform configurations : Reducing infrastructure deployment times by 25%.
- Engineered a self-service platform for deployments : Leading to a 30% reduction in new customer onboarding time.
Tech Lead
Paylocity
Remote, NE
2016.10 - 2020.05
- Led cross-functional efforts to develop a self-service Slack bot: Enabling secure production interactions and reducing on-call pages by 65%.
- Mentored and facilitated collaboration across three teams to implement Ansible: Which resulted in a 40% reduction in server deployment time..
- Developed a PowerShell module called InvokeDSC Which abstracted Desired State Configuration (DSC) to JSON, enabling dev teams to modify server configurations reducing configuration errors by 30 % .
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Networking
Iowa Central Community College
Fort Dodge, IA 2008.01 - 2010.01
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Scripting (PowerShell & Bash)
- Containers
- Cloud computing (Azure & AWS)
- Go Programming Language
- Kubernetes
Timeline
Senior Cloud Advocate (Cloud-native)
Microsoft
2022.07 - Current
Senior Technical Writer
Microsoft
2021.01 - 2022.07
Site Reliability Engineer
Stack Overflow
2020.06 - 2021.01
Tech Lead
Paylocity
2016.10 - 2020.05
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Networking
Iowa Central Community College
2008.01 - 2010.01