WARREN(7)

NAME

warren — Cloud Solution Architect, Azure Core, Microsoft South Africa

SYNOPSIS

warren [--sovereign] [--region ksa|uae|za] [--residency] [--data-laws] [--aws] [--opensource]

DESCRIPTION

Designs Azure architecture for sovereign and regulated-industry deployments across EMEA, consulting to enterprise and financial services customers, system integrators, and ISVs. Deep in ExpressRoute, vWAN, AVS/HCX, Azure Local, Azure Arc/hybrid, AKS, and sovereign landing zones. Terraform to Bicep, Kubernetes to firewalls. Delivers technical content at area and EMEA level.

HISTORY

Former Microsoft MVP — Azure and Office 365 (Teams Voice). Open source and cloud networking background; built global grids for global cloud providers before joining Microsoft. Long-time podcaster and YouTuber, including the Cloud Architects Podcast.

INTERESTS

Builds and breaks things across self-hosting, local AI, making, and machines that move. The stack includes Rocky Linux, Podman, MikroTik, Synology, n8n, LiteLLM, Ollama, and OpenWebUI. Also deep in Klipper-based CoreXY 3D printers, currently a Voron 2.4 StealthChanger multi-tool machine, plus laser engraving, ESP8266 electronics, Pokémon TCG judging, and music — jazz, rock, disco, metal, house, classical, plus a growing pile of vinyl that refuses to stay alphabetised.

BUGS

Refuses to use nano. Will rewrite your config in vim.

SEE ALSO

posts(1), talks(1)