Michael Bender
BI ETL Developer at Charter Communications
Village of Port Chester, New York, 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
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Queens College - City University of New York
Github Skills (13)
microsoft-azure10
powershell9
windows-server8
exams8
pluralsight8
windows7
powershell-module6
cloudshell6
azure4
microsoft3
certification1
python1
automation1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
themichaelbender/demos
Mar 2019 - Feb 2022
Central repository for demo resources
Contributions:134 commits, 1 PR, 119 pushes 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
powershell
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