Summary
Michael Spinks is an Azure-focused DevOps engineer with over 20 years of IT experience who has transitioned from hands-on on-premises infrastructure to leading cloud-native transformations for enterprises and public sector organisations. He has supported Fortune 500 AI deployments as an Azure AI Support Engineer at Microsoft and builds scalable, secure Azure platforms using AKS, Terraform/ARM, CosmosDB tuning and GitOps workflows with Flux and Flagger. Known for integrating security and compliance into CI/CD pipelines, he brings practical experience delivering DAST/SAST gates, Okta identity management, and Kubernetes security frameworks. Michael pairs deep operational roots in Windows Server and VMware with modern automationโauthoring test frameworks in Golang/Terratest and engineering automated canary releasesโwhich helps teams reduce risk while accelerating delivery. Based in Wolverhampton, he excels at turning complex migration programmes and AI workload challenges into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Computer Science and Information Systems, 2:1 Computer Science and Information Systems at The University of Salford