Summary
Derek Schauland is a Technical Lead and ten-time Microsoft MVP with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and automating cloud solutions across Azure and Google Cloud. He specializes in cloud engineering, infrastructure-as-code (notably Terraform), and automation with PowerShell, having reduced user onboarding times by 50% and driven multi-environment segregation to cut outage risk. Derek has designed hub-and-spoke networking, AKS and multi-regional Azure SQL replication, and multi-cloud BigQuery ingestion pipelines to improve reporting availability for stakeholders. He pairs technical delivery with clear diagrams and documentation to make proofs of concept reviewable and extensible by both infrastructure and development teams. A published author and longtime community contributor, he’s written for Microsoft and other tech outlets and co-authored several Microsoft Press and Apress books. Based in Greenville, WI, he also co-founded a local tech education series and has worked with Microsoft to deliver resume and career sessions for the community.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MCSE Microsoft Windows, MCSE Microsoft Windows at Wave Technologies
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Computer Information Systems at University of Central Missouri