James Bannan
Principal Consultant at Microsoft
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Bannan is a Principal Consultant based in Melbourne with over two decades of IT experience and a decade of focused hands-on cloud and infrastructure work. He combines deep expertise in cloud computing, automation, cybersecurity and infrastructure management with a track record advising government, retail and finance clients to solve complex technical and business problems. A published author and industry trainer who has produced Pluralsight course files and taught for platforms like A Cloud Guru, he blends practitioner-level tooling skills (ARM, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Key Vault, Network Watcher) with strategic consulting. James has progressed through senior consulting and principal roles at multiple firms and now consults at Microsoft, bringing both delivery leadership and technical depth. Known as a trusted advisor and speaker, he often translates technical complexity into practical, auditable solutions that drive measurable outcomes. An economist-and-history-educated technologist, he pairs commercial insight with a long history of writing and public speaking that informs his client-focused approach.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (12)
azure-resource-manager10
resource-manager10
arm10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure-powershell10
aac10
azure-cli10
azure-keyvault9
rbac8
role-based-access-control8
devops8
containerization4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jamesbannan/pluralsight
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Course files for Pluralsight courses created by James Bannan.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:184 commits, 18 PRs, 89 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:James focused on deploying and configuring various Azure resources using PowerShell and Azure CLI. They primarily worked with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to deploy simple IaaS and PaaS solutions, including virtual networks, storage accounts, and app service plans. The user also demonstrated skills in deploying and configuring Azure Key Vault, creating and assigning RBAC roles, and implementing diagnostic settings and network monitoring using Network Watcher and virtual machine diagnostics.
pluralsightpluralsight-coursesjames
jamesbannan/presentations
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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