I’m a Lead Application Support Manager at Standard Life PLC, with a strong passion for continuous learning and technology. You can explore my certifications and learning journey on my Credly profile.
In 2025, I was honoured to be recognised as a Microsoft MVP for Azure.
I’m particularly passionate about Azure architecture, cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on building secure, scalable, and well-governed platforms.
I also hold several Microsoft certifications, including Azure Solutions Architect and Enterprise Administrator.
I’ve been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2021, delivering official Microsoft training.
Alongside this, I actively share knowledge through blogging and community engagement.
- 🇧🇷 Brazilian living in 🇬🇧 UK
- 19+ years of experience in IT infrastructure
- Lead Application Support Manager focused on Azure, Microsoft 365, Automation & Intune
- Passionate about documentation, real-world tutorials and helping the community
- Author of GetPractical.co.uk
- Designing and supporting Azure landing zones, governance & best practices
- Microsoft 365: Exchange Hybrid, Teams, Intune, Defender, Conditional Access
- Building PowerShell & Graph scripts for:
- health checks & HTML reports
- automation and clean-up
- compliance & security baselines
- Helping customers move from on-prem to modern cloud-native architectures
- Documenting everything in a simple and practical way for engineers and customers
- Azure · Azure Virtual Machines · Storage · Networking
- Entra ID (Azure AD) · Conditional Access · PIM
- Azure Policy · Management Groups · RBAC
- Microsoft 365 · Exchange Online / Hybrid
- Intune (Windows, compliance, apps, configuration profiles, remediation scripts)
- Defender for Endpoint & M365 security features
- PowerShell (a lot)
- Microsoft Graph API
- Azure Automation / Runbooks
- Terraform (learning and applying in new projects)
- CI/CD concepts, GitHub & pipelines
- Working with content understanding using Azure AI Foundry agent
- Designing Safe Azure App Registration Secret Rotation (With Guardrails)
- Why most Azure environments fail at governance
- Building an Azure “Super-Assistant” with Azure MCP (Preview)
- Azure Health Check – A Free Script to Audit and Visualise Cloud Hygiene
- Azure Private Link Service Direct Connect – Simplified Private Connectivity (Public Preview)
- Automating a Monthly Azure Update Compliance Report with Logic Apps + Azure Resource Graph
- How to Troubleshoot High Memory Pressure on an Azure VM Using Performance Diagnostics