Jan Elven
Architect at EVIDI
Viken, Norway
Summary
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SeniorJan Elven is a seasoned cloud and security architect with over 25 years of experience building and operating enterprise infrastructure, currently shaping cloud strategy at EVIDI. A Microsoft MVP for Security and longtime leader in Azure, Identity, Governance and Automation, he blends deep hands-on systems skills with an active public presence through blogs, webinars and conference talks. His career spans roles from senior operations and consulting to architecting modern datacenter and hybrid cloud solutions at Skill AS, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from on-prem support to cloud-native design. Jan is equally fluent in Microsoft 365 and DevOps practices, and is known for translating complex security and identity requirements into practical, auditable architectures. Based in Viken, Norway, he combines curiosity for emerging tech with a teaching background that helps teams adopt secure, scalable cloud patterns.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (34)
microsoft-azure10
backup10
terraform9
networking9
ansible9
devops9
azure9
kubernetes8
azuread8
intune7
windows6
speaker6
powershell5
terraform-provider5
microsoft-graph4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BorgenGutta/BorgenGutta.github.io
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:751 commits, 1074 pushes in 2 years
AUGNorway/communities
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
This is a repository for Global (Azure) Communities to maintain their page on the globalazure.net website.
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 1 month
azure
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