Julien Stroheker
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJulien Stroheker is a Principal Software Engineer based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, containers, and orchestration at Microsoft, currently on the Arc product team. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Go, Python and C#, and has contributed to high-profile Azure open-source projects such as azure-cli (AKS/ACI connectors) and ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift), including integrations with Helm, AAD, and CI pipelines. Julien blends engineering and DevOps fluency—shipping features, troubleshooting pipelines and writing deployment automation—while mentoring teams and driving quality in production deliveries. His background as a technical evangelist, trainer and early cloud consultant gives him an uncommon aptitude for translating complex platform capabilities into practical adoption patterns. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions across Kubernetes, containers and Azure, and he keeps a visible commitment to open source and community-driven tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Information Technology, Master of Science Information Technology at SUPINFOBac STI Electrotechnique, Bac STI Electrotechnique at Lycée Louis FeuilladeBTS Informatique et Réseaux, BTS Informatique et Réseaux at Lycée Jean Mermoz
French, English
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Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
python10
mysql10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
apache10
cicd10
azure-cli10
ubuntu10
script10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/ARO-RP
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 26 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Julien's commits primarily focus on fixing issues related to pipelines and tests within the context of Go code and Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) deployments. Their contributions include updates to Go code for parsing test results, potentially for CI/CD integration. Further contributions involve merging branches and updating vendor files. They also worked on the base implementation of Unique Client IDs, including validations and database interactions.
red-hatopenshifthatkubernetesazure
Azure/azure-cli
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the Azure CLI for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Instances (ACI) by implementing commands for installing and uninstalling connectors, specifically the ACI-Connector. The work included modifying Python scripts to incorporate Helm for deploying the ACI-Connector, adding options for OS type, and integrating with AKS clusters. The user also added OpenShift (OSA) support, including the creation, deletion, and scaling of OSA clusters, along with related AAD integration.
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