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.)

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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# (12.0)
• Framework: .NET 8
• Design Pattern: I'm well-versed in MVVM but I'm one of the weird ones that prefers code-behind 🤷‍♂️
• UI: XAML (familiar with WPF, UWP and─my preference─WinUI 3.)
• Databases: I prefer Google Cloud Firestore or BigTable but I've worked with:
  • SQL Server
  • SQLite
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis (distributed cache but still)
  • Firebase Realtime Database
  • Amazon DocumentDB
  • Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
  • MongoDB
• .NET SDKs:
  • I'm very much in love with the Windows App SDK.
• Scripting: I've dabbled in a few languages but I'm most comfortable with PowerShell.
  • PowerShell 5.1
  • PowerShell 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:
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • React
  • Next.js
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • BootStrap 5
  • TailwindCSS
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • Gulp / Sass
  • ASP.NET / Blazor / whatever Microsoft is going with at this moment

• Destiny 2: Automatically Redeem In-Game Emblem Codes
• PowerShell: Reusable Code Snippets
• Icons and Logos: A massive collection of SVG icons and logos