Aidan Finn
Consultant, Trainer, Managing Director at Cloud Mechanix
Enfield, County Meath, Ireland
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Top SchoolAidan Finn is a veteran Azure-focused consultant, trainer, and managing director with a long track record of helping organisations design, migrate, and govern cloud environments across public, private, and education sectors. He combines hands-on architecture and delivery—having led VDC/landing-zone projects, complex hybrid networking, and large cloud adoption engagements—with a strong presales and documentation skillset. As a 14-year Microsoft MVP, published technical author and frequent conference speaker, he blends community-driven thought leadership with pragmatic engineering. He founded and grew Cloud Mechanix to provide custom Azure training and deep technical consulting, mentoring both senior and junior engineers along the way. Based in County Meath, Ireland, he is equally at home writing books and scripts as he is implementing secure, governed Azure platforms that integrate across multi-cloud and on-prem ecosystems. An unexpected strength is his sustained ability to turn community content and event feedback into repeatable, classroom-grade training that accelerates customer adoption.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Applied Computing, BSc Applied Computing at Waterford Institute of Technology
Github Skills (19)
arm10
powershell10
azure10
microsoft9
microsoft-azure9
windows-server6
terraform5
terraform-provider5
firewall5
bicep4
powershell-module4
windows3
azure-resource-manager2
arm-templates2
command-line-tool1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aidanfinn/SharedAzureFirewall
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
A public repository for Azure Firewall resources
Contributions:1 review, 21 commits, 19 pushes in 5 months
azurefirewall
aidanfinn/avm
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
Custom Bicep Azure Verified Modules
Contributions:4 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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