Yorick Kuijs
Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering At Microsoft
Culemborg, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolYorick Kuijs is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft with over a decade specializing in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 architectures, helping customers prevent and recover from complex tenant and platform issues. He combines deep hands-on experience from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 through SharePoint Online with field engineering and customer-facing roles that emphasize workshops, risk assessments, and pragmatic remediation. As project owner and tech lead of the open-source SharePointDsc PowerShell module and a contributor to the widely used Microsoft365DSC repo, he brings practical automation and testing discipline to configuration-as-code for Microsoft 365. Based in the Netherlands, Yorick blends infrastructure roots across Windows, Exchange and SQL Server with a proven ability to translate operational pain points into durable, automated solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HBO, HLO - Laboratory Informatics and Automation, Ing., HBO, HLO - Laboratory Informatics and Automation, Ing. at Avans Hogeschool BredaHAVO, HAVO at Koningin Wilhelmina College
English, Dutch
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
powershell10
sharepoint-online10
microsoft10
azure-active-directory8
devops8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Microsoft365DSC
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Manages, configures, extracts and monitors Microsoft 365 tenant configurations
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 462 reviews, 135 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yorick primarily focused on developing new resources related to SharePoint Online Hub Sites within the Microsoft 365 DSC project. Their contributions involved creating a new resource for managing SPOHubSite, including writing extensive unit tests to cover various scenarios, such as when the site doesn't exist or is incorrectly configured. The changes suggest a focus on PowerShell-based configuration and testing within the context of the Microsoft 365 environment. They also updated existing resources to align with the code style guidelines.
tenantoffice365onedrivedesiredstateconfigurationmicrosoft
ykuijs/Powershell
Jun 2017 - Sep 2019
Various Powershell scripts
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
powershellpowershell-scripts
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