Summary
Arnaud Petitjean is a Senior Services Engineer at Microsoft with over a decade of experience securing and operating large Microsoft and Azure environments, currently focused on Azure Sovereign Cloud reliability, security, and compliance. A longtime PowerShell authority—founder of the French-speaking PowerShell community, PowerShell MVP, consultant, trainer and multi-book co-author—he blends deep automation expertise with hands-on systems architecture and DevOps practices. He has led engineering teams as CTO in e-health and architected Microsoft/virtualization platforms at CEA, applying pragmatic automation to complex enterprise and regulated environments. As CEO of Start-Scripting he packages that expertise into training, bespoke tooling and consulting, with a notable emphasis on testing (Pester) and release pipelines. Based in Bordeaux, he quietly combines academic engineering grounding (CNAM) with entrepreneurial drive and a reputation for evangelizing PowerShell at scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplome Universitaire de Technologies, Informatique, Diplome Universitaire de Technologies, Informatique at IUT Dijon
Ingenieur en informatique, Informatique, Ingenieur en informatique, Informatique at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers / CNAM
French, English