My name is John Gage Faulkner... you can call me Gage. I'm employed as a Cloud Solutions Engineer in Atlanta, GA where I design and build solutions across our enterprise environment of ~12,500 employees and 50+ internal departments. Generally speaking, this manifests itself as something simple like the Packaging & Deployment of either 3rd Party or internal proprietary apps but I also designed and implemented our entire Microsoft Intune environment, including Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration, and setup/configured the Intune Connector Service on our SCEP server to deploy wifi certificates to our devices during autopilot provisioning. The next project was Qualys (VM/PM) infrastructure setup and deployment but I was then asked to remediate as many vulnerabilities as possible (PowerShell helped me drop the Vulnerability Count in our environment from 2,000,000 (two-million) to ~88,000 in under 1 year (April 2020 to January 2021) before I handed it off to our End-User Support Team. Now, most of my time is spent ensuring our Intune environment is maintained and developing custom solutions to various IT-related challenges faced by users both in the IT Department (i.e., building a Windows 10/11 Desktop App ("AIM Tech Toolkit") to consolidate all the tools our HelpDesk and Desktop Support technicians use into a "single pane of glass" (think: Intune Company Portal but for IT) and users across all our various departments (E911, Police, Fire, Courts, etc.)
- Putting this here to make myself remember it later: https://github.com/dahall/Vanara/tree/master
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I've been programming since Visual Studio 2005 (when I was 12-years-old 🤓) so I've been with C# and .NET for nearly 20 years now. The list below contains the languages, frameworks, platforms, etc., that I've learned to love over the years:
- Language:
C#(13.0) - Framework:
.NET 9 - Design Pattern: MVVM, Code-Behind (Standard)
- UI: WinUI 3 (
XAML) - Databases: I prefer
Google Cloud FirestoreorBigTablebut I've worked with:SQL ServerSQLiteMySQLPostgreSQLRedis(distributed cache but still)Firebase Realtime DatabaseAmazon DocumentDBMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DBMongoDB
- .NET SDKs:
- I'm very much in love with the
Windows App SDK.
- I'm very much in love with the
- Scripting: I've dabbled in a few languages but I'm most comfortable with
PowerShell.PowerShell 5.1PowerShell 7💖Command Prompt(.cmd&.bat)
- Web Development:
- Although not my preference (not a fan of web development nor their technologies), over the years I've put in my fair share of time with:
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsHTML5CSS3BootStrap 5TailwindCSSNode.jsExpress.jsGulp / SassASP.NET/Blazor/ whatever Microsoft is going with at this moment
