Tiander Turpijn is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with nine years of formal experience in product and program management and a long career in enterprise IT stretching back to the early 1990s. He focuses on Azure management and security—currently contributing as a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Sentinel—and blends product strategy with hands-on DevOps and cloud engineering. His open-source contributions to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud repo show practical expertise automating Azure resource deployments and enforcing security configurations via PowerShell. Across roles from system engineer to senior architect and program manager, he has guided both technical delivery and customer-facing outcomes at scale. Based in the Netherlands, he brings a mix of deep operational knowledge and product leadership that helps translate complex security controls into reliable, automatable cloud solutions. An underappreciated strength is his continuity within Microsoft, which gives him rare institutional context across product, security, and field engineering.
Welcome to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud community repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:91 commits, 77 pushes, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tiander primarily contributed to automation and infrastructure-related tasks within the repository, as evidenced by the modifications to PowerShell scripts, particularly those for managing Azure resources and implementing security best practices. The commits demonstrate expertise in deploying, configuring, and maintaining Azure services, including function apps and SQL databases. A significant portion of the work involves creating and updating scripts to enforce security configurations and manage Azure resources, which is a key DevOps function.
Contributions:259 commits, 230 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Tiander Turpijn - Principal Product Manager at Microsoft