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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
07.2022 - 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
01.2021 - 07.2022
  • 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
06.2020 - 01.2021
  • 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
10.2016 - 05.2020
  • 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
01.2008 - 01.2010

Skills

  • Kubernetes

  • Scripting (PowerShell & Bash)

  • Containers

  • Cloud computing (Azure & AWS)

  • Go Programming Language

  • Kubernetes

Timeline

Senior Cloud Advocate (Cloud-native)

Microsoft
07.2022 - Current

Senior Technical Writer

Microsoft
01.2021 - 07.2022

Site Reliability Engineer

Stack Overflow
06.2020 - 01.2021

Tech Lead

Paylocity
10.2016 - 05.2020

Associate of Applied Science - Computer Networking

Iowa Central Community College
01.2008 - 01.2010

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