About me

I am was a Azure Customer Experience (CXP) Engineer with design and full-stack development experience. I've been building for the web since 1999 and have professional experience from design, to engineering to architecture. This broad spectrum enables me to identify and solve problems under real life constraints.

Best Practices are Theory without Implementation

"Best practices" without implementation is theory, not business value. Most companies struggle because of Conway's Law¹, which says a company's design systems including IT will reflect their communication structure. Leveraging my enterprise architecture experience from Allianz Germany and professional design skills, I distilled concepts into Microsoft documentation and diagrams, that help companies understand the high level concepts that drive how they design their specific architectures and security concepts.

Combining Design and Technical Experience

This diagram below illustrates End-to-end governance in Azure when using CI/CD from code repositories (Azure DevOps) to Azure resources by illustrating security boundaries that apply both to actors (engineers and DevOps agents) as well as resources themselves, e.g. dev vs. production.

Asking the Hard Questions

It's easy to chase the shiny new thing. A decade ago, it was DevOps. Today it's AI. While I believe AI can and will eventually revolutionalize business, it's not transformative if you're not asking the right questions to unlock new business value. Most AI systems today excel at surfacing answers from a known dataset.

Computers are useless.
They only give you answers.

— Pablo Picasso

I prefer the hard problems. I want to search the unknown to create new business value. AI is just one of many tools in the toolbox. AI will give you answers. I will ask the hard and uncomfortable questions, whose answers are waiting to be discovered.