Henk Boelman
Principal Cloud Advocate
Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHenk Boelman is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with over a decade of experience helping developers build and ship cloud-native solutions. He blends hands-on engineering and public-facing advocacy—writing, speaking, and running developer communities—to make complex Azure services accessible. Previously a Cloud Solution Architect and Cloud AI Architect, he has deep experience in Azure, DevOps, cognitive services and scalable web architectures from roles at Mirabeau, Ordina and startups. He’s also an active community builder: founder of Global AI Community, Azure Thursdays and Lowlands.Community, and chairs a foundation supporting women and children in Uganda, reflecting a commitment to tech-for-good. Based in the Netherlands, Henk pairs pragmatic technical leadership with event-making and social impact, often surfacing practical patterns for cloud adoption that aren’t obvious in vendor docs.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeuse Media Technologie, Propedeuse Media Technologie at Hoge School van UtrechtMAVO-D Secondary education, MAVO-D Secondary education at Revius Lyceum, DoornMTS Computer Science, MTS Computer Science at Technisch College Ede
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (100)
trainer10
microsoft-azure10
umbraco10
computer-vision10
azure10
predict10
custom-vision10
azure-storage-explorer10
cognitive-services10
microsoft10
bing-speech10
nlp9
azure-machine-learning9
resource-sharing9
artwork9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GlobalAICommunity/global-ai-bootcamp-2023
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:24 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
hnky/Workshop-AI-Pre
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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