Brett Hacker
Owner at Strength of the Ox, LLC
Malvern, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Hacker is a seasoned cloud and full-stack engineer with nine years of formal experience and a long career spanning systems engineering, development, and technical leadership. An ex-Microsoft Principal Cloud Solution Architect, he specializes in Microsoft Azure and identity solutions, helping organizations increase productivity, cut costs, and modernize operations. He has repeatedly built consulting practices and product platforms from scratch, most recently founding Strength of the Ox to deliver Church 365, a SaaS that orchestrates ministry workflows on customers' own Microsoft subscriptions. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, he blends hands-on coding, architecture, and program management to move projects from prototype to production. Notably, his background in music education and early work as a systems engineer inform a pragmatic, human-centered approach to tooling and communication. Based in Malvern, Arkansas, he leverages deep Microsoft cloud expertise to solve complex identity and integration challenges for niche verticals.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BME (Vocal) Music Education, BME (Vocal) Music Education at Arkansas State University
Github Skills (93)
difference10
hyper-v10
dsc10
b2b10
webjobs10
prose10
automated-deployment10
redcap10
azure-web-app-service10
x64dbg10
microsoft-graph-api10
azure10
sketchup10
aad-b2c10
azure-ad-b2c10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bretthacker/Wutnu
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Azure demo app, features a URL shortener, using Azure storage blob and queues, SAS tokens, AAD/B2C auth, Web Apps with Webjobs, Redis Cache, and Azure SQL DB.
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 1 month
tokensqueuesaadtflintstorage
microsoft/aad-hybrid-lab
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
Create a new VM with AD installed, test users created, PowerShell Azure AD modules, and Azure AD Connect installer ready to go.
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 1 month
powershellinstallerhyper-vinstalledazure
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