Biography
Daniel Ives has worked in the IT industry since leaving university in 1992, holding roles including support, analysis, development, project management and training. In that time, he has worked with a variety of operating systems and gained familiarity with a variety of programming languages, frameworks, databases and data processing products.
He joined QA in 2006, having previously worked first as a developer and then a trainer on the Microsoft stack. He is an Authorized Amazon Instructor Champion and holds all of the current AWS certifications. As a Learning Consultant, Daniel focuses on creating and delivering courses about cloud services, service-oriented architectures, software development, DevOps and data engineering.
Daniel also delivers our Google Cloud Platform courses, and holds 2 GCP certifications: Data Engineering Professional and Architect Professional. Other areas of expertise include: C#, .NET and agile development.
His areas of interest also include Microsoft Azure, Python, sailing, skiing and cycling – although not necessarily in that order or at the same time.
Career history
2006-Present - QA - Head of Learning - Cloud
2001-2006 - Parity - Senior Learning Consultant
Qualifications
- Linux Foundation Authorised Instructor
- Google Authorised Instructor
- Amazon Authorised Instructor - Champion
- Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Google Certified Professional Cloud Developer
- Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
- Google Certified Professional Cloud Data Engineer
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect Associate and Professional
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
- AWS Certified Big Data Specialty
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder Specialty
- AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty
- AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
- AWS Certified Databases Specialty
- Calico Certified Level 1 Network Engineer
- Calico Certified Level 2 AWS Expert
- Microsoft Certified IT Professional
- Database Administrator SQL Server 2005
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
- NET Framework 4 - Windows Applications and Web Applications
- NET Framework 1 - Enterprise Application, Windows and Web Developer
- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
- NET Framework 4 - Windows Applications and Web Applications
- .NET Framework 3.5 - ADO.NET, WCF, WPF and ASP.NET
- NET Framework 2 - Enterprise, Windows and Web developer
- Sun Certified Java Programmer - Java 2 Platform
- Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Visual Studio 6 and .NET
- Microsoft Certified Application Developer .NET
- Microsoft Certified Database Administrator SQL Server 2000