Joel Stidley
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect International CSU
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoel Stidley is a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and guiding cloud and messaging solutions, currently leading Azure adoption and security engagements for international accounts. He joined Microsoft in 2010 after a long career architecting hosted Exchange and infrastructure services, and previously ran his own consulting and training business where he authored books, exam content, and ran a prominent Exchange community. Joel’s deep expertise spans Azure infrastructure, Exchange, Active Directory, Hyper-V, VMware, System Center, and automation with PowerShell, and he emphasizes real-world lab experience as the best way to learn new technologies. He blends technical writing, instructor-led training, and product-facing architecture to help customers adopt cloud-native SIEM and application/infrastructure services. Based in Dallas, he is known for translating emerging tech into practical business outcomes and for a longstanding commitment to community education and documentation.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (38)
windows10
cybersecurity10
office36510
windows-package-manager10
security10
powershell-module10
vagrant10
command-line-interface9
ruby9
intune9
command-line9
automation9
winget9
cloud-native9
virtualization9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
joelst/M365Automation
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
PowerShell scripts to automate creating and updating Endpoint Manager Packages
Contributions:60 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
powershellintuneintunewinintune-administratorwinget
joelst/AzLighthouse
Aug 2023 - Jun 2026
Managing Microsoft Sentinel with Azure Lighthouse
Contributions:4 PRs, 139 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 10 months
armtemplatesazure-lighthousemicrosoftmicrosoft-sentinelmicrosoftsentinel
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