Francois-xavier Cat
Staff Engineer, Platform Engineering (AVP)
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolFrancois-xavier Cat is a Staff Engineer (AVP) in Platform Engineering with 13 years of experience building automated, cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms primarily on Azure. He designs greenfield solutions, authors Terraform-based policy-as-code, and drives containerization and orchestration efforts (AKS, Helm, Docker) to deliver environments on demand. Known for pragmatic automation, he codifies repeatable blueprints, remediations and self-hosted agent management consumed by Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. A former Microsoft MVP and prolific PowerShell author, his GitHub contributions show deep Windows/AD/Azure scripting expertise applied to operational tooling and monitoring. Based in Colorado and a U.S. green card holder, he combines sysadmin roots with platform-scale engineering to help teams adopt cloud design patterns and reduce tech debt. Outside work he’s curious about science and space and brings that same exploratory mindset to platform reliability and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BTS Network Administrator, BTS Network Administrator at CFAI Sifor OiseService Sciences and Technologies Computer Sciences, Service Sciences and Technologies Computer Sciences at Lycée Félix Faure – BeauvaisAEC Computer Sciences: Network Security, AEC Computer Sciences: Network Security at ISI Montreal
French, English
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Github Skills (10)
system-administration10
powershell10
azure10
active-directory10
microsoft-azure10
scripting9
infrastructure7
cloud-infrastructure7
git6
github6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lazywinadmin/PowerShell
Dec 2013 - Oct 2020
PowerShell functions and scripts (Azure, Active Directory, SCCM, SCSM, Exchange, O365, ...)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & PowerShell Scripting
Backend Developer & PowerShell ScriptingContributions:6 reviews, 709 commits, 15 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Francois-xavier's contributions primarily involved developing and maintaining PowerShell scripts for managing Active Directory, Azure, and other Windows Server technologies. The commits demonstrate the creation of scripts to monitor Active Directory group memberships and gather site and subnet information. The user implemented modular code with parameters, error handling, and email reporting capabilities, indicating a focus on system administration tasks and automation. The user's work also included improvements to existing PowerShell scripts, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and maintenance.
exchangemdtoffice365microsoftscsm
lazywinadmin/Monitor-ADGroupMembership
Jul 2015 - Nov 2019
PowerShell script to monitor Active Directory groups and send an email when someone is changing the membership
Contributions:45 commits, 6 PRs, 40 pushes in 4 years 5 months
groupsmonitorwindows-serverpowershellactivedirectory
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