Dan Gaskin

Dan Gaskin has a diverse work experience in the technology industry. Dan is currently an Engineering Manager at SKUTOPIA, a position they have held since April 2023. Prior to that, they worked as a Contractor at Parpera from November 2022 to March 2023. From July 2021 to October 2022, Dan was a Senior Engineering Manager, overseeing operations in Australia and New Zealand for TrueLayer. Before that, they served as a Lead Consultant at Contino from September 2019 to July 2021. From April 2017 to August 2019, they worked as a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer at Checkout.com. Dan started their career as a Cloud Engineer at Kaplan International Colleges from August 2014 to March 2017. Prior to that, they held the role of System Engineer at Fujitsu New Zealand from June 2011 to May 2014.

Dan Gaskin attended Hutt International Boys' School from 2000 to 2006. Dan then pursued higher education at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007 to 2010, where they earned a BCA degree in Information Systems and E-Commerce.

In terms of certifications, Dan obtained several certifications. In 2013, they became a Microsoft Certified Professional and earned the MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certification from Microsoft. Dan also obtained the ITIL v3 Foundations certification from EXIN in June 2013.

More recently, Dan has achieved various certifications related to cloud computing and DevOps practices. In 2019, they earned the AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification and the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services. In 2020, they obtained the AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services and the Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner certification from Scaled Agile, Inc.

Furthermore, in February 2021, they obtained the CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer certification from The Linux Foundation. Lastly, Dan holds the DevOps Leader certification from the DevOps Institute, although the specific details regarding the month and year of obtaining this certification are not provided.