Mike Preston
Staff Technical Marketing Manager at Rubrik
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 (31)
core-module10
use-case10
aws-lex10
documentation-generator10
sdk10
powershell10
lex10
aws-lambda9
automation9
lambda9
chatbot9
documentation9
intelligent9
documents9
python8
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
rubrikinc/use-case-roxie
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
Roxie, Rubrik's Intelligent Personal Assistant
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 1 issue in 2 years 7 months
assistantpersonal-assistantintelligentpythonlambda
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