Brian Benz
Principal AI Advocate
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrian Benz is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with 13+ years helping enterprises and developer communities adopt Azure, particularly within the Java ecosystem. He blends deep technical roots in data governance, MDM, and analytics with hands-on cloud evangelism—creating learning paths, live shows, and DevOps guidance for Java shops. Brian has a proven track record forging partnerships with Oracle, IBM, Red Hat and others to bring Jakarta EE and enterprise workloads to Azure, and he mentors developers and speakers worldwide. His career spans founding a consulting firm, senior architecture roles at IBM and Deloitte, and authoring technical books—so he pairs practical implementation experience with public-facing content and community building. Based in Las Vegas, he is a Java champion who quietly reduces adoption friction by building canonical apps, demos, and processes that scale developer onboarding.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (104)
trainer10
command-line-interface10
vector-database10
milvus10
huggingface10
openai-api10
chatgpt10
tencent10
onnx10
gemini10
azure10
gpt10
ollama10
jvm10
llama10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bbenz/DevOpsforJavaShops
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Highlighting the easiest ways for developers to work with their IT organizations and partners to deliver their Java code to the cloud using GitHub, including the best ways to reliably make updates and maintain production java code. The focus is on real-world examples using command line tools, free tools including GitHub Actions, a
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
command-line-tooljava
bbenz/langchain4j
May 2024 - Sep 2025
Java version of LangChain
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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