Jared Holgate
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJared Holgate is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect with 14 years of experience helping organisations accelerate their cloud adoption, currently leading Azure Landing Zones and Azure Verified Modules at Microsoft with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Based in Leeds, he combines deep technical delivery experience from customer-facing roles at Microsoft and HashiCorp with prior leadership in software engineering and architecture at Maples Group. Jared is active in the Yorkshire DevOps and Yorkshire Azure communities, reflecting his commitment to knowledge sharing and grassroots technical leadership. Unusually for a cloud specialist, his background spans biomedical sciences and brewing diplomas, bringing empirical rigor and practical curiosity to large-scale cloud platform design.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Certificate, IT Professional, Post Graduate Certificate, IT Professional at Sheffield Hallam UniversityDiploma, Brewing, Diploma, Brewing at Institute of Brewing and Distilling
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Github Skills (119)
managed-identity10
github10
azure-api-management10
accelerator10
terraform10
arm10
encryption10
terraform-module10
azure-pipelines-task10
azuread10
architecture10
secrets10
powershell-module10
azure-devops10
vault10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/accelerator-bootstrap-modules
Feb 2024 - Apr 2026
Terraform modules that support version control system bootstrapping for the ALZ Accelerators
Contributions:87 releases, 33 reviews, 148 PRs in 2 years 1 month
terraform-moduleversion-control
microsoft-azure-landing-zones-cd-tests/alz-rcd7cer524
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:208 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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