Michael Bender
Senior Content Developer at Pluralsight
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Bender is an operations-minded senior content developer and educator with nine years of focused experience building cloud and IT operations learning experiences, currently creating Azure Networking content at Microsoft. He combines a teacher’s mindset with hands-on systems expertise—authoring college textbooks, Pluralsight courses, and classroom curriculum covering Windows Server, PowerShell, virtualization, and cloud migrations. Michael has led course production teams and mentored authors, helping shape lab platforms and certification curriculum during industry transitions such as the A Cloud Guru integration. His background as a longtime instructor and consultant means he pairs practical, real-world operational guidance with polished, studio-quality learning assets. Based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, he’s driven by a creator ethos—“sharing the wealth”—and frequently engages with the IT community through talks, webinars, and mentoring. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of turning classroom lab innovations into standard practices adopted across regional college systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Accounting and Finance at University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterMadison Area Technical College
Github Skills (20)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
openxml9
pluralsight9
documentation-generator9
windows-server9
powershell9
windows-service8
exams8
windows7
mdt7
powershell-module7
content-repository7
documentation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
themichaelbender/demos
Mar 2019 - Feb 2022
Central repository for demo resources
Contributions:134 commits, 118 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
ps-interactive/lab_powershell_getting_started
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Challenge and lab content for the Powershell Getting Started lab content.
Contributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 3 months
powershelllab
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