About
As a kid, I wanted to build tools that make people’s daily work easier. That’s still pretty much what I do, just at a bigger scale.
I’m a Cloud Automation and DevOps Engineer at Atlas Copco, in the Cloud Center of Excellence, based in Prague. I work on the things developers use every day: Azure, GitHub Copilot, Azure DevOps, and the pipelines and guardrails around them.
What I work on
Azure. I automate how teams get their cloud resources, from resource groups to VMs, through self-service requests. I also work on Azure Policy and governance. A big part of the job is helping teams set things up properly from the start.
GitHub Copilot. As product owner, I took Copilot from a small proof of concept to more than 2,000 users. The licenses were the easy part. Most of the work was governance, budgets, training, a champions program, support, and helping people change how they work.
Azure DevOps. I set up the enterprise governance model, cut the number of organizations by about half, and introduced backups for the platform.
Before Atlas Copco, I spent four years at DHL IT Services, building web applications and chatbots, then working as service owner and acting DevOps lead for a SaaS product.
Learn, then teach
I’ve learned most of what I know from people who took the time to share it. So I try to do the same: teach what I learn, answer the question someone else is stuck on, and make the next person’s path a bit easier. That’s why I’ve spent so much of my free time on communities. As a Microsoft Student Partner I organized Global Azure Bootcamps and workshops. I answer questions on Stack Overflow and write blog posts, and at Atlas Copco I started the DevOps Community of Practice and co-founded InnerSource.
Stack: Azure, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, .NET