Andrew Wilson
Microsoft Azure MVP | Chief Consulting Officer at Black Marble
Bradford, United Kingdom
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Andrew helps to enable organisations to modernise, integrate, and optimise their systems, always with an eye on DevOps best practices.
He is involved across most of the software development lifecycle, but his focus tends to lean toward consultations, gathering requirements, and architecting solutions that solve real-world problems.
Andrew works across a range of areas including application modernisation, BizTalk to Azure Integration Services (AIS) migrations, system integrations, and cloud optimisation. Over time, Andrew has developed a strong focus on Azure, especially around AIS.
In short, Andrew helps bridge the gap between technical possibilities and business needs, making sure the solutions designed are both practical and future-ready.
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Securely call Logic App Workflows with API Management
Azure API Management is a key tool for composing and managing APIs in your organisation.
Logic Apps Standard provide a low-code solution for creating APIs that transform and move data between systems.
In this session we will look at ways to use these two services together effectively. From an approach to simplifying the connection of a logic app to APIM, to using Easy-Auth to secure the connection, with code samples and practical demos.
Defensive Processing in Azure Logic Apps
Logic Apps provide a low-code solution for creating workflows that integrate apps, data, services, and systems.
Many use this Azure service to automate business-critical processes, but often forget the core fundamentals of defensive programming (processing).
In this session we will look at ways to bulletproof your Azure Logic Apps: learning techniques and methods in ensuring resilience and maintainability.
The App that Refused to Die: A Modernisation Journey
Every org has that app, too critical to kill, too broken to scale. Join a real-world modernisation journey to uncover the technical, cultural, and strategic shifts that finally set it free.
From ClickOps to Confidence: Shipping Azure Infrastructure with Bicep
As systems grow, manually clicking around cloud portals becomes fragile, inconsistent, and hard to reason about. Teams lose confidence in their infrastructure because no one is quite sure how it’s supposed to work.
This talk introduces Azure Bicep as a practical way to move from “ClickOps” to repeatable, versioned Infrastructure as Code. We’ll look at how Bicep helps teams manage environments, reduce configuration drift, and make infrastructure changes safer and more transparent (without requiring deep Azure expertise).
Azure Bicep in the Real World: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Pragmatism
Azure Bicep is easy to get started with, but using it well on real projects is harder.
This talk shares practical lessons from using Bicep in production: patterns that scale across teams and environments, common pitfalls that slow delivery, and the trade-offs that matter in day-to-day work. We’ll look at how to structure Bicep code, avoid over-engineering, and keep infrastructure maintainable over time.
If you’ve moved beyond basic templates and want a more pragmatic approach to Infrastructure as Code, this session is for you.
Andrew Wilson
Microsoft Azure MVP | Chief Consulting Officer at Black Marble
Bradford, United Kingdom
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