Yvan Duhamel
Escalation Engineer On SharePoint
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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SeniorYvan Duhamel is an Escalation Engineer at Microsoft France with 11 years of deep, hands-on experience troubleshooting and debugging complex SharePoint, Azure, and Entra ID integrations. He specializes in security, automation, and authentication, and brings practical infrastructure-as-code expertise—authoring popular claims providers for SharePoint Server and Terraform/ARM templates to automate SharePoint deployments. His daily work bridges customer-facing incident resolution and direct collaboration with Engineering to drive bug fixes and product improvements. An active contributor to Azure Quickstart Templates and DevTestLab artifacts, he focuses on DSC, PowerShell and reliable VM provisioning to streamline SharePoint environments in the cloud. Based in Paris, he combines platform-level problem-solving with pragmatic tooling that helps teams deploy secure, production-ready SharePoint solutions. Colleagues would note he’s equally comfortable debugging service stacks as he is building reusable automation that prevents future incidents.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (28)
system-configuration10
sharepoint10
microsoft-azure10
dsc10
automation10
active-directory10
powershell10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
automations10
autoconfiguration10
adfs9
sql-server9
networking8
microsoft-graph-api6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-devtestlab
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Azure DevTestLab artifacts, scripts and samples
Role in this project:
DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:39 commits, 44 PRs, 22 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yvan primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the infrastructure for deploying SharePoint environments. Their contributions included modifications to DSC scripts for configuring VMs, including setting up networking, joining AD domains, and installing required software. The changes show a focus on improving reliability and streamlining the deployment process. The user also addressed issues related to timeouts and Azure DSC extension behavior after reboots.
artifactsazure
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 94 commits, 44 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yvan's commits primarily involve configuring and modifying PowerShell scripts related to the deployment of SharePoint infrastructure on Azure. Their work focuses on customizing DSC (Desired State Configuration) scripts to automate the setup and configuration of various SharePoint components, including Active Directory, ADFS, and SQL Server. Key contributions include improving script reliability, adding features to manage specific services like caching and diagnostic logging, and integrating with Chocolatey for software installation. The commits demonstrate an understanding of infrastructure automation and SharePoint configuration through DSC.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
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