Jerome Brown
Principal Consultant at Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJerome Brown is a Principal Consultant based in Canterbury, New Zealand, with 10 years of hands-on experience architecting cloud platforms and delivering deployment automation using DevSecOps practices. He has led infrastructure transformation engagements—designing Azure landing zones and migrating core applications across on-prem, Azure and AWS—while embedding security and automation across the delivery lifecycle. A pragmatic engineer who rose through systems and SCCM operations, Jerome combines deep operational experience with modern infrastructure-as-code approaches. He contributes to the popular hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm project, adding data sources and feature support that reflect a focus on surfacing Azure capabilities reliably for users. Recognised as a Microsoft MVP in DevOps & Azure IaC, he balances consultancy leadership with steady open-source contributions and practical implementation experience.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce, Information Systems, Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce, Information Systems, Computer Science at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (14)
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
testing9
go-testing9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
devops8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 22 commits, 27 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jerome's contributions primarily involve developing new data sources and related testing within the Azure Resource Manager Terraform provider. These changes include implementing new data sources such as `backup_policy_file_share` and `azurerm_logic_app_standard`, demonstrating backend logic development for retrieving and exposing Azure resource information. The user also worked on adding new features, such as support for Flex Consumption plan and Default Share Permissions on Storage file shares, showcasing a focus on enhancing the provider's functionality and supporting new Azure features. Additionally, the user made several code formatting and other minor improvements.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
oWretch/terraform-provider-azurerm
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Contributions:137 pushes, 77 branches, 14 tags in 3 years 4 months
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managertflintazure
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