Lone Peak Software is Darin Dickey.
A Microsoft Certified AI, Cloud Security, Developer and DevOps Expert with hands-on Azure development/engineering experience since 2017 — based in Utah. Over 25 years total developer/engineer experience. Open to working with clients across the U.S.
When you hire Lone Peak, you get me — not a sales team, not a project director, not a junior handed an org chart. I own the engagement end-to-end: architecture, implementation, and the hand-off.
For the last nine years I’ve worked hands-on with Microsoft Azure — designing and shipping production workloads for App Service, Functions, Container Apps, and AKS, wiring in Microsoft Entra ID, Key Vault, and Private Link, and standing up CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. More recently my focus has been generative and agentic AI on Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI — RAG systems, agents with real tool integrations, and permission-aware enterprise AI.
Solo-senior is a feature, not a bug. It’s why the rate on the Pricing page is a fraction of what the big firms charge: no bench, no overhead, no layers between you and the person doing the work.
What I believe
- Ship working software early, and iterate with real users.
- Security is a design constraint, not a checkpoint.
- Infrastructure belongs in code, reviewed like any other change.
- Great documentation is a feature.
Microsoft certifications
Current and valid credentials I hold from Microsoft.
Verification available on request.