Randy Pagels
Principal Trainer at Xebia
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRandy Pagels is a Principal Trainer and Microsoft MVP specializing in GitHub, DevOps, and AI-driven developer tooling, with nine years of focused experience and over a decade shaping cloud adoption at Microsoft. He designs and delivers hands-on training—covering Copilot, Actions, Advanced Security, prompt engineering, and IaC—built around real-world scenarios and flexible formats to accelerate team adoption. Previously he helped scale FastTrack for Azure from pilot to global program and led Azure IoT and app modernization efforts from the Redmond engineering hub. Based in the Detroit area, he combines deep practitioner skills as a Cloud Solution Architect and developer advocate for Healthcare & Life Sciences with a knack for turning complex platform capabilities into practical training and repeatable delivery patterns. Not obvious from titles alone: he balances strategic program design with day-to-day classroom delivery, ensuring trainer growth and high-quality, enterprise-ready outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Breyer State University
Github Skills (32)
continuous-integration10
dotnet10
azure-cli10
azure10
devops10
unit-test10
microsoft-azure9
doctor8
csharp8
chrome7
firefox7
vscode6
iot6
chromium6
testing6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RPagels/MercuryHealthGroup
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:232 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Azure/onboarding-guidance
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
onboarding-guidance
Contributions:217 commits, 6 PRs, 197 pushes in 11 months
onboardingazuredevopsguidanceazureazure-cli
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