Speaker

Jeff Wouters

Jeff Wouters

MCT | CTO @ Methos

Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Jeff Wouters, former 9* MVP Cloud & Datacenter Management, PowerShellian, blogger, speaker and Dutchie. He is a frequent speaker at (inter)national events with a focus on Automation, Cloud and DevOps and is the co-founder of the Dutch PowerShell User Group. Jeff holds the role of CTO at Methos, where he guides customers to a infrastructure-as-code and DevOps way of (Azure) infrastructure management.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Business & Management

Topics

  • PowerShell
  • PowerShell Core
  • PowerShell DSC
  • Automation with PowerShell
  • Azure DevOps
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • DevOps
  • Azure Services and DevOps
  • DevOps & Automation
  • Automation
  • Cloud Automation
  • Automation & CI/CD
  • building teams
  • Psychology
  • Organizational psychology

Communicating with or without pissing people off

Communicating in a way so that people understand what you mean, but you don’t come across as rude or insensitive. This can be especially difficult when there’s a cultural difference, but also based on people’s personality. We’ll also cover why some people come across as aggressor or victim, where in neither case they are generally liked by others. Or why people help others at the cost of themselves.
In this session multiple conversational techniques are covered that can help you recognize this behavior, protect yourself when needed and help others communicate in a way that doesn’t piss people off.

Your own (advanced) PowerShell function template in 45 minutes

Over the years I've provided many PowerShell trainings and helped Ops people to become (better) scripters. When it comes to writing PowerShell functions, there is an easy way of writing a generic function template which I'll show you. During this, I'll also show you what 'wrong' output you get when you forget something, so by recognizing the symptom (wrong output) you can recognize what you forgot.

Howto: Not get a burnout

You hear it every once in a while: Someone that's sick at home, undergoing a burnout. How do you avoid this yourself? Do you recognize the signs? What are the signs? Can you maintain a work-life balance? Is it the same for everyone? If not, what is it for you? In this session I'll cover some of these topics that affect all of us, one way or another.

I've got the moves like Swagger

This session is about documenting your API with a thing called Swagger, also known as OpenAPI. Basically write your code the way you should write them, and let the Swagger engine generate your API documentation. During this session we'll see how you can implement it in a single application or microservices-based solution, both on a small and large(r) scale, how it works and some configuration tweaks that make it even better.

The new smaller and slimmer App types in .NET

Not including things in your application that you're not using is the best way to make your app small, slim, fast, lean and simply more efficient. Microsoft has introduced two new application types in .NET 8 that allow for this. Let's dive into these and see what the benefits are!

Intune & Graph API - Getting started + Tips & Tricks

Where to begin when you start working with the Graph API regarding Intune? You can start fiddling around and figure it out or follow this session.
I'll give you a solid foundation and practical approach by showing you how to get started, show you some tips and tricks but I'll also show you some tools that you can use to make your using the Graph easy, securely and following best practices.

Where to begin when you start working with the Graph API regarding Intune? You can start fiddling around and figure it out or follow this session so you can do it easily, securely and by following best practices.

Conditional Access - From business (case) to implementation

During this session we'll go through building a business case for the implementation of conditional access and how you can convince management that they should want this. We'll also go through the options that that are offered and how you can configure them easily following a 3-5 steps procedure, making it flexible, scalable, and of course manageable.

Howto make the business case and implementation of conditional access as easy as 123.

Jeff Wouters

MCT | CTO @ Methos

Nieuwegein, The Netherlands