Michel Roth
Senior EMEA Windows 365 End Customer Global Black Belt (GBB) at Microsoft
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel Roth is a seasoned End User Computing and virtualization expert with 25+ years of experience, currently serving as Senior EMEA Windows 365 End Customer Global Black Belt at Microsoft where he helps enterprises adopt AI-ready cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop solutions. He combines deep technical hands-on skills—demonstrated by infrastructure-as-code contributions to the Azure Bicep AVD templates—with product leadership and commercial wins across startups and large tech firms. Known for translating complex customer requirements into pragmatic, scalable strategies, Michel has driven record growth in partner-led programs and enterprise deployments across EMEA. A respected evangelist, author and speaker with a well-read newsletter and a global following, he feeds real-world customer insights back into product engineering to shape Windows 365 and AVD direction. Unusually for a tech leader, his background in biochemistry underpins a methodical, analytical approach to diagnosing and solving customer problems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Chemistry Biochemie en Moleculaire biologie, Chemistry Biochemie en Moleculaire biologie at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
infrastructure-as-code10
cloud-infrastructure10
bicep10
aac10
arm-templates10
microsoft-azure9
azure9
analytics8
log-analysis8
devops7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/bicep
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 15 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Michel primarily contributes to infrastructure-as-code solutions within the Azure/Bicep repository, specifically related to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Their work includes creating and modifying Bicep templates for AVD deployments, encompassing hostpools, application groups, and workspaces. Furthermore, the user demonstrates expertise in integrating monitoring and diagnostic settings within AVD environments, including the configuration of Log Analytics workspaces and associated diagnostic settings. The contributions also include the creation of example deployments and code snippets.
deployingazure-resourcesarm-jsondeclarativedeclarative-language
fberson/Azure-Virtual-Desktop-as-a-gaming-console
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:43 commits, 33 pushes in 3 months
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