I am former Microsoft Azure MVP who currently works for Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - Engineering. I currently reside in Grand Rapids, MI with my wife and kids. I have wide range in experiences from Systems Analyst, Application and ETL Development, Project Management, Cloud Engineering, DevOps consulting, and Cloud Architecture.
I have a blog at Blog.JohnFolberth.com. Additionally I have had blogs posted and/or featured on:
- European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference (ESPC)
- Feedspot Top Terraform Blogs
- Feedspot Top Azure Blogs
- Top Stories from Microsoft DevOps Community
- Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences Blog
- Technology.
- A love hate relationship with running
- Trying to keep up with my kids
- Finding innovative and automated ways to solve technology issues
- Sharing what knowledge I have with others will simultaneously learning from them
- 2023 Heartland Developer Conference: Azure Deployment Environments the Future of Development
- West Michigan Azure User Group: Introducing Azure Load Testing to your CI/CD Pipelines
- 2022 Heartland Developer Conference: "Many Flavors of Azure IaC"
- 2020 Heartland Developer Conference: "The DevOps Mindset"
- 2019 Heartland Developer Conference: "Data Analytics in Azure: Our Journey and Experience
- Omaha Azure User Group: YAML Deployment Pipelines
- Omaha Azure User Group: Azure Bicep Walkthrough
Tech Review on "Building Applications with Azure Resource Manager (ARM): Leverage IaC to Vastly Improve the LIfe Cycle of Your Applications"