Mike Preston
Staff Technical Marketing Manager at mwpreston.net
Madoc, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Preston is a virtualization-focused technologist with two decades in IT and a decade of hands-on experience leading technical marketing and developer advocacy at Rubrik. He combines deep VMware expertise (vSphere, vCenter, VCAP/VCP certifications) with practical skills in automation, scripting (PowerShell/PowerCLI, bash, Perl), web and database development (PHP, ColdFusion, MSSQL/MySQL), and cloud architectures (AWS Solutions Architect). As author of Troubleshooting vSphere Storage and a long-running virtualization blogger, he translates complex infrastructure problems into clear guidance and repeatable automation. Mike’s background in school-board systems and real-world deployments gives him a pragmatic appreciation for resilient, maintainable designs and disaster recovery in distributed environments. He’s pursuing Kubernetes and AWS developer certifications, reflecting a continuous focus on cloud-native and automation-driven operations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer/System Analyst Computer Programmer/System Analyst, Computer Programmer/System Analyst Computer Programmer/System Analyst at Loyalist College
Github Skills (39)
core-module10
documentation-generator10
sdk10
powershell10
documents9
intelligent8
documentation8
automation8
avs7
python-client6
powershell-module6
validation-framework6
maintenance6
plugin6
database5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Rubrik.CDM
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Repository for AsBuiltReport Rubrik CDM module
Contributions:4 reviews, 94 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 5 months
cdmpowershellreportas-builtrubrik
mwpreston/PowerShell-RubrikSQLHealthCheck
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
Script which Live Mounts specified SQL Databases on specified SQL Servers and performs dbcc checkdb
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 6 months
sql-serverssqldatabasessql-databasesdatabase
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