Infrastructure Management and Software Development

I have spent my career straddling the line between infrastructure management and software development. I've worked for a Fortune 200 company and been the first technical hire at a startup. I've touched far more technologies than I could reasonably list here (or even remember), but my primary strength isn't any of them: it's being able to step into a role, work with stakeholders to understand the business priorities, find the gaps in the current coverage, and make the world a little more robust. I've masqueraded as a technical writer (see discussion of one of my favorite blog posts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722408 — all of my Basho posts are archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20170801133203/http://basho.com/posts/author/john-daily/), presented at conferences about NoSQL data modeling, Apple MDM, Erlang, immutability, and logical time (but not concurrently), jumped in to help my employer with a NLP project in my evenings and weekends, created a WebSphere deployment DSL, trained co-workers on TCP/IP and UNIX, and written kernel software (but not for, admittedly, a very long time). (At Basho I started copy-editing their marketing materials while still in the hiring process; that was a lesson in keeping my head down, but fortunately they hired me anyway.) Let me make your life a little bit easier.