Josh Duffney
Senior Cloud Advocate
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Duffney is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with 10+ years of hands-on systems administration, engineering, and cloud automation across Windows and Linux. He applies a developer mindset to automating today’s problems, most notably creating InvokeDSC, a JSON DSL for PowerShell DSC resources, and authoring Pluralsight courses on PowerShell, DSC, and automation. Previously a Senior Content Developer at Microsoft and a Site Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow, he has led CI/CD and IaC initiatives that reduced deployment times and eliminated configuration drift. Based in Bellevue, Nebraska, he shares insights through the duffney.io blog, conference talks, and podcast appearances, and maintains an interest in cross-cloud reliability and SRE practices across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. An active open-source contributor and educator, he translates complex enterprise challenges into reliable, repeatable automation that empowers development teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Sophomore, Sophomore at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Stackoverflow
409reputation
45kreached
16answers
17questions
Github Skills (175)
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
dsc10
security10
attestation10
iis10
relations10
signing10
notation10
verify10
sdk10
rest10
azure10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Duffney/SCCMPowerShell
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 issue in 6 years
Duffney/duffney.github.io
Jul 2016 - Sep 2020
DevOps within a Windows World
Contributions:2 PRs, 329 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
powershellansiblewindowsdevops
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