Gael Colas
PowerShell Consultant Director SynEdgy
London, England, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolGael Colas is a PowerShell-focused Cloud Automation Architect and Director at SynEdgy with over a decade of experience designing Windows-centric infrastructure, DevOps platforms, and cloud automation for enterprises. He combines hands-on Azure Automanage and DSC expertise with product-thinking and Agile coaching—having shipped OS configuration resources at Microsoft and led VM configuration and CI/CD improvements at large firms like KPMG and G-Research. A frequent community organiser and trainer (PowerShell Conference Europe, PSDayCH) and active contributor to the dsccommunity workshop repo, he’s as comfortable debugging complex build/test pipelines as he is streamlining deployment flows that cut processes from hours to minutes. Known for systematic problem solving under pressure, he blends SRE-minded reliability with pragmatic automation to deliver auditable, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at SUPINFOMSc Mobile and High-speed Telecommunication Networks, MSc Mobile and High-speed Telecommunication Networks at Oxford Brookes UniversityScientific Baccalaureate Major Engineering Science, Scientific Baccalaureate Major Engineering Science at Lycée Alain, Alençon
English, French, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
azure-devops-server10
powershell10
pester10
dsc10
azure-devops10
cicd10
testing10
infrastructure9
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dsccommunity/DscWorkshop
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Blueprint for a full featured DSC project for Push / Pull with or without CI/CD
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gael primarily focused on improving the build and testing processes within the DSC project. They addressed build failures by changing exit conditions to assertions, ensuring test results are accurately captured. Furthermore, the user made updates to configuration files and corrected import statements to optimize the functionality of the DSC project. Finally, the user was involved in merging branches and integrating third-party code fixes.
full-featuredpushautomatedlabazuredevopsdsc-artefacts
gaelcolas/DscBuildHelpers
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 10 reviews, 39 commits in 1 year 10 months
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