About

I'm a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer with a decade of experience in IT. I've worked on everything from keeping traditional servers humming along to building modern, cloud-first solutions in Azure. What I've learned along the way is this: solving challenging technical problems is great, but making life easier for other people through those solutions is even better.

A few years back, I started contributing to open-source projects. That first commit quickly became one of my favorite side hobbies, and I haven't stopped since. Instead of just fixing problems in my company, I could build something that thousands of people might use. What started as tinkering in my free time turned into something bigger. I ended up writing guides, utilities, and helping the community adopt it in their day-to-day work.

I'm also a big fan of sharing what I learn. I write blog posts around a variety of technologies and all the weird things you run into when building solutions in the cloud. My style is simple:

Clear, concise, and no fluff.

Just lessons learned from the field, explained in such a way that I wish someone would explain it to me. It's been fun to hear from readers who say my writing helped them avoid the same headaches I once had.

At the end of the day, I'm just someone who enjoys learning, building, and sharing. What always geeks me out is a successful automation implementation, whether it is small or big.

Highlights

• I'm proud to be one of the top contributors on Microsoft's DSC v3 project.
• Created my very first Bicep Databricks extension using .NET.
• Did a lighting demo during a podcast on the PQD channel with Andrew Pla.
• Shakily took the stage during PSConfEU 2025 to give a demo on What's new in Microsoft DSC v3.1.
• Launched a command-line utility (CLI) to standardize Bicep local-deploy doc generator called bicep-local-docgen.
• Developed and shaped multiple WinGet DSC resources installed by thousands of
  developers.
• Launched the PSDSC module to help migrate from PSDSC v1.1/v2 to Microsoft DSC v3.

Sticking points

Some skills fade away over time, and some always stick with me:

• Automating IT workflows with PowerShell (or whatever language gets the job done) to reduce manual effort.
• Designing secure and scalable solutions across Windows and the Azure cloud platform.
• Streamlining software delivery with WinGet and Microsoft DSC v3.
• Troubleshooting challenging infrastructure problems with a pragmatic approach.
• Translating practical challenges into simple, repeatable technical patterns.
• Driving standardization of processes and tooling within a large enterprise.

My work history