Nico Orschel
DevOps Whisperer Germany at Microsoft MVP Program
Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Top SchoolNico Orschel is a DevOps specialist with 11+ years driving CI/CD, application lifecycle and release management across Microsoft ecosystems, currently serving as DevOps Whisperer at Xebia (formerly Xpirit) in Germany. A long-standing Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, he blends deep Azure/Azure DevOps expertise with hands-on configuration and build management from a decade at AIT/Siemens. He’s known for translating complex ALM challenges into repeatable pipelines and pragmatic governance that balance automation with team needs. Based in Trier with a background in Wirtschaftsinformatik from Technische Universität Ilmenau, Nico pairs community leadership and continuous learning with a talent for making enterprise-grade DevOps accessible.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2008 Wirtschaftsinformatik / commercial information technology, 2008 Wirtschaftsinformatik / commercial information technology at Technische Universität Ilmenau
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
azure-devops-services10
migration10
chocolatey10
azure-devops10
migration-tool10
inherited10
tfs10
azure-boards9
testcase9
azure-pipelines-task9
migrator8
microsoft7
hyper-v7
copilot7
wpf6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
norschel/AzurePipeline.HyperV
Dec 2022 - Feb 2025
Remote control one or many virtual machine(s) on a (remote) Hyper-V Server. The Azure Pipelines task supports start and stop a virtual machine plus create, restore and delete Hyper-V snapshots.
Contributions:6 PRs, 33 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
azure-pipelines-taskhyper-vvirtual-machine
norschel/GitHubActions.HyperV
May 2023 - Jul 2026
Remote control one or many virtual machine(s) on a (remote) Hyper-V Server. This GH action supports start and stop a virtual machine plus create, restore and delete Hyper-V snapshots.
Contributions:7 releases, 75 PRs, 158 pushes in 3 years 1 month
hyper-vvirtual-machine
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