Summary
Daniel Dickinson is an experienced IT manager and integration analyst with nine years of recent professional experience and over four decades of hands-on engagement with computing and electronics. Currently leading IT and product-integration efforts at Ambient Activity, he blends firmware and embedded Linux expertise (OpenWrt/Yocto) with cloud and DevOps tooling, and maintains open-source contributions such as the Node.js package perfectionist-dfd. He has a practical track record building end-to-end solutions—from hardware to Power Platform automations and self-hosted SOHO infrastructure—while shipping documentation and operational automation using Ansible, Puppet, Terraform and custom tooling in Python and Go. A Bachelor of Computing from the University of Guelph underpins his technical breadth, and he recently refreshed certifications with CompTIA A+ • ce. Outside product work he’s an active community volunteer and library board member who runs educational robotics programs and local tech outreach, reflecting a long-standing drive to apply technology for community benefit.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Computing / Baccalaureate in Computing, Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Computing / Baccalaureate in Computing at University of Guelph