Merill Fernando
Principal Product Manager at Jozra
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMerill Fernando is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft based in Melbourne with over a decade of experience architecting and shipping user-focused software. He blends systems architecture, development and integration skills honed across roles from startup co-founder to engineering lead and solution architect. At Microsoft he has driven product direction while remaining hands-on—contributing to open-source tooling such as AzureADAssessment where he automated build/versioning and fixed Azure AD/MS Graph integration bugs. Known for translating complex cloud identity and automation challenges into reliable, maintainable solutions, he thrives on delighting end users through pragmatic engineering. His background spans academia and industry, including a Master’s in IT from Keele University and early work as a developer-lecturer, which underpins his mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Information Technology, Master of Science Information Technology at Keele Universityecole internationale
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Github Skills (10)
powershell10
cicd10
build-automation10
azuread9
adal6
wix6
visual-studio6
microsoft-graph-api6
windows-installer6
azure-active-directory6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/AzureADAssessment
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Tooling for assessing an Azure AD tenant state and configuration
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 112 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Merill primarily focused on automating the build and versioning process for the Azure AD assessment tool. They implemented build scripts to manage module versioning, modifying the manifest file accordingly. The commits show a consistent effort to update and refine these build scripts, ensuring accurate version control within the PowerShell modules. Additionally, the user added code related to Azure AD and MS Graph API including fixing a bug related to Conditional Access Policy reports and converting Notification Mails.
tenantpowershellazure-ad-b2cazureazure-ad
merill/merill.github.io
Jun 2018 - Apr 2025
Source repo for personal blog.
Contributions:1 PR, 261 pushes, 2 comments in 6 years 10 months
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