Erwin Staal
Azure Lead Architect at Staal IT
Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
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Top SchoolErwin Staal is an Azure Lead Architect from the Netherlands with nearly two decades of hands-on software and cloud experience, specializing in Azure landing zones, governance, and DevOps-driven platform engineering. He helps organizations—from startups to regulated enterprises like healthcare and aviation—modernize infrastructure and migrate complex workloads while embedding compliance (NEN 7510, ISO 27001) into automated pipelines. As owner of Staal IT and former CCoE lead at UMC Utrecht and architect at KLM, he blends technical depth in IaC (Terraform, Bicep), identity, and platform patterns with strategic change leadership for platform teams. A Microsoft MVP and co-author of "Azure Infrastructure as Code," he is also an international speaker and occasional farmer-cooperative chair, reflecting an unusual mix of technical influence and local community engagement.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Xebia Consultants Development Program, Xebia Consultants Development Program at TIAS School for Business and Societymaster, Computer Science, master, Computer Science at HanzeDigital MBA for Technology Leaders, Digital MBA for Technology Leaders at CTO AcademyPrinses Margrietschool Smilde
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
docker10
faas10
openfaas10
lambda10
functions-as-a-service10
serverless10
nodejs10
serverless-functions10
k8s10
speaker9
kubernetes9
golang9
prometheus9
paas9
azure9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
staal-it/arm-demo-templates
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
staal-it/deployment-environments-demo
Aug 2023 - Apr 2026
This repository is used for my session on 'Efficient and Secure Software Delivery with Azure Deployment Environments and DevBoxes'.
Contributions:45 PRs, 28 pushes, 49 branches in 2 years 9 months
azure-deploymentbicepterraform
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