Daniel Laskewitz
Principal Cloud Advocate
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Laskewitz is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with 11 years of experience helping developer and citizen-developer communities build on the Power Platform and Microsoft 365. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing UI improvements and Dutch translations to the popular PnP SharePoint Starter Kit—with automation and DSC expertise in Microsoft365DSC and PowerShell tooling. A former Subject Matter Expert and consultant at Sogeti, he blends technical advocacy, training, and pre-sales experience to translate product engineering priorities into developer-facing content, samples, and talks. Based in Utrecht, he’s equally comfortable shipping cmdlets and scripting infrastructure as he is presenting and mentoring, and his work often focuses on making enterprise collaboration tools more accessible and localised.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Digital Communication, Bachelor, Digital Communication at Utrecht University of Applied SciencesMarketing & Communication, Marketing & Communication at ROC Midden-Nederland
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
microsoft10
sharepoint-framework10
typescript10
sharepoint10
configuration-as-code10
typescript-types10
powershell10
typescripts10
react10
cm10
documentation10
cmd10
localization9
test-automation9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Microsoft365DSC/Microsoft365DSC
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Manages, configures, extracts and monitors Microsoft 365 tenant configurations
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 46 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily involve modifying and creating PowerShell scripts to manage and configure Microsoft 365 DSC resources. They added new configurations and test files for PPTenantSettings and TeamsChannelPolicy resources, and updated existing ones. The user demonstrated expertise in defining and refining DSC resources, particularly within the Microsoft 365 environment and the Power Platform.
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pnp/PnP-PowerShell
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
SharePoint PnP PowerShell CmdLets
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer (SharePoint PnP PowerShell)
Full-stack Developer (SharePoint PnP PowerShell)Contributions:23 commits, 20 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the documentation and implementation of PowerShell cmdlets for the SharePoint PnP PowerShell module. They modified existing documentation for various cmdlets like `Set-SPOMinimalDownloadStrategy` and `RemoveNavigationNode`, ensuring accurate help text and examples. The user also added, modified, and reverted documentation for multiple cmdlets and made updates related to the `Add-SPOView` cmdlet to include the `Paged` property. They also updated the project's documentation.
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