Rene Van Den Bedem
Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRene Van Den Bedem is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft with a multi-decade career designing and delivering enterprise, cloud, and service provider architectures. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from early software and network engineering roles at Nokia and Fujitsu—with strategic leadership as a chief architect and global solutions architect at firms like RoundTower and AWS. Rene is unusually credentialed (the only quadruple VCDX and DTCM-EA, plus NPX and other vendor honors), which he leverages to translate complex technical risk into pragmatic, business-focused solutions. He favors working backwards from the problem to create minimal-risk designs that drive measurable value, particularly in digital transformation programs. Based in Cincinnati, he also documented and shared deep technical insight as a long-running blogger (VCDX133.COM), signaling a commitment to community education beyond his corporate roles. Colleagues describe him as a rare blend of architect, program leader, and educator who thrives on untangling the hardest infrastructure challenges.
4 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Bachelor of Science (Honours) at Deakin University
English
Github Skills (38)
microsoft10
reference-implementation10
microsoft-azure10
prepare10
terraform10
aws10
azure10
vcenter10
avs10
architecture9
command-line-interface9
zone9
vmware9
terraform-provider9
azure-cli9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-vmware-solution
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 33 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
customersarchitecturalazurevmware
rvandenbedem/azure-docs
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:93 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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