Christoph Bergmeister
Senior DevOps Manager (Group Manager Level) at Avanade
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Bergmeister is a Senior DevOps Manager based in London with nine years of experience leading cloud-native migrations, SRE and DevSecOps teams across large enterprises. He combines strategic delivery leadership—currently coordinating a multi-company cut-over for next-generation smart meters—with deep hands-on engineering, particularly in Azure, CI/CD and build/packaging automation. An active open source maintainer and five- (now eight-) time Microsoft MVP, he’s a visible community evangelist who has spoken at major PowerShell conferences and contributes significant features to flagship projects like PowerShell, PSScriptAnalyzer and the VS Code PowerShell extension. His background in computational physics and early HPC research underpins a data-driven, automation-first approach to platform reliability and developer experience. Notably, he implemented the automatic “-Fix” functionality in PSScriptAnalyzer and has improved MSI/WiX packaging and installer UX for cross-platform PowerShell distributions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics, Study year abroad, First Class (average grade: 74%), MSc. Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics, Study year abroad, First Class (average grade: 74%) at The University of BirminghamMatura (Austrian A-levels), Private Secondary School, Matura (Austrian A-levels), Private Secondary School at Paulinum Schwaz/AustriaBachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Equivalent to Upper Second Class, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Equivalent to Upper Second Class at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
German, Italian, English, Latin, French
Github Skills (33)
debugging10
git10
debug10
pester10
windows-installer10
testing10
packaging10
configuration-management10
wix10
chocolatey10
automation10
iswix10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
management10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Download ScriptAnalyzer from PowerShellGallery
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 releases, 165 reviews, 371 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the PSScriptAnalyzer project by implementing and refining the `-Fix` switch, which automatically corrects code style violations. They expanded this functionality, addressing issues like code formatting, variable casing, and handling of different coding styles. Additionally, the user was involved in enhancing and stabilizing the testing infrastructure, by adding test cases to evaluate and verify that rule violations get fixed correctly.
powershellgallerylinterpowershellscriptanalyzerformatter
PowerShell/vscode-powershell
May 2018 - Sep 2022
Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 46 PRs, 178 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributes to the PowerShell language support extension for Visual Studio Code. Their contributions include adding new settings for code formatting, implementing commands to run and debug Pester tests, and enhancing the Pester test handling, incorporating features like context menus and escaping single quotes. The user also refactored the code to improve structure, migrated settings, and incorporated new PSSA settings, demonstrating a focus on improving the extension's functionality and usability.
visual-studio-codepowershellvscodevscode-extensiondebugging
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