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David focuses on the product management of Puppet’s development ecosystem and integrations. This includes management of the Forge, supported modules, Puppet Developer Kit and integrations such as ServiceNow and Splunk. Before this, he worked within Puppet’s Solutions Architect team where he helped Puppet’s largest customers deliver infrastructure automation at scale and supported these customers DevOps working practices. He spent eight years at NatWest as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer delivering their IaaS Platform.

David has a passion for delivering change into traditional working environments, breaking down team silos, and integrating DevOps working practices within heavily regulated and audited environments. David is a keen hillwalker ( ...more

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Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers: Automate your infrastructure at an enterprise scale

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

by J.K. Rowling

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World Football Club Crests: The Design, Meaning and Symbolism of World Football's Most Famous Club Badges

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Interrail Ramblings: An A-Z Travelogue

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“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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“Vimes found it better to look to Authority for orders and then filter those orders through a fine mesh of common sense, adding a generous scoop of creative misunderstanding and maybe even incipient deafness if circumstances demanded, because Authority rarely descended to street level.”
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