Josh Duffney
Senior Cloud Advocate
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Duffney is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with 11 years of hands-on systems, SRE and DevOps experience across Windows and Linux environments, focused on cloud reliability and automation. He combines a developer’s mindset with deep operational chops—authoring Pluralsight courses, creating the open-source InvokeDSC PowerShell module, and presenting at industry conferences. His background includes leading CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code efforts at Paylocity and Site Reliability work at Stack Overflow, where he reduced manual toil and sped deployments using DSC, Octopus, and TeamCity. Josh holds Azure and AWS certifications, maintains an active technical blog, and is passionate about applying SRE principles to public cloud transformations. A less obvious strength: he consistently turns repetitive operational work into reusable tooling and learning content, both internally and for the broader community.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer and Information Systems Security / Information Assurance, Sophomore, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer and Information Systems Security / Information Assurance, Sophomore at University of Nebraska at OmahaAssociate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager, Graduated, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager, Graduated at Iowa Central Community CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School, High School Diploma, High School at Sioux Central High School
Stackoverflow
409reputation
45kreached
16answers
17questions
Github Skills (160)
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
dsc10
security10
attestation10
iis10
signing10
notation10
verify10
sdk10
rest10
azure10
vulnerabilities10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Duffney/SCCMPowerShell
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 issue in 6 years
Duffney/duffney.github.io
Jul 2016 - Sep 2020
DevOps within a Windows World
Contributions:2 PRs, 329 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
powershellansiblewindowsdevops
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