Jared Holgate

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT

Profile

Focused on building and operating enterprise-grade cloud platform foundations through reusable infrastructure patterns, Terraform/IaC, and continuous delivery. Hands-on technical lead who sets standards, reviews and ships code, and turns strategy into working reference implementations and automation. Comfortable working across product, platform, and customer-facing engineering to drive adoption with maintainable, supportable solutions. Polyglot programmer and fast learner, recently delivering in C#, Go, and TypeScript alongside scripting and automation.

Highlights

Azure Verified Modules (AVM)

  • Tech lead, own and maintain Azure Verified Modules (AVM), act as a coach and regularly talk to user groups and partners about AVM and vNext of the Azure Landing Zones modules.
  • Responsible for managing 100's of Terraform repositories at scale with automation.

Azure Landing Zones

Workload Identity Federation for Terraform

ID Token Refresh for Azure DevOps

  • Orchestrated the introduction of ID Token refresh for Azure DevOps and Terraform across multiple Terraform providers and tools.
  • Wrote and released v5 of the Azure Pipelines Terraform task. Blog post.

Azure Code Samples

Conference Speaking & Training

  • Regular speaker at internal conferences (LevelUps, TechConnect and TechReady). Write and deliver sessions on AVM, ALZ, and Terraform best practices.
  • Author of Microsoft customer facing training on IaC with Terraform and Bicep in the form of a Value Based Delivery. Continue to maintain it, promote it and help others to deliver it.

Community Involvement

Experience

Microsoft

Senior Cloud Solution Architect – Global Tech Strategy

Jun 2024 – Present

Leeds, UK (Remote)

  • Tech lead for Terraform Azure Verified Modules (AVM), supporting module standards and automation at scale. Owner of core networking modules leveraged by 1,000's of customers.
  • Tech lead for Azure Landing Zones Modules, responsible for building and maintaining Terraform Platform Landing Zone modules. Owner of the ALZ IaC Accelerator, used by 1,000's of customers to onboard onto Microsoft Azure.
  • Support global 500 customers with complex and large scale deployments, especially with Infrastructure as Code.
  • Terraform
  • Azure
  • Go
  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • IaC
  • DevOps

Senior Cloud Solution Architect – UK CSU

Nov 2022 – Jun 2024

Leeds, UK (Remote)

  • Provide expert level architectural guidance to large scale companies on DevOps, Software Engineering and Cloud Native workloads.
  • Infrastructure as Code and DevOps SME, asked to speak to customers about scaling IaC on a regular basis.
  • Core maintainer of ALZ Terraform Modules.
  • Maintainer of Azure DevOps Terraform provider and Terraform tasks for Azure DevOps Pipelines.
  • Owner of Terraform customer training materials.
  • Terraform
  • Azure
  • DevOps
  • Bicep
  • Architecture

HashiCorp

Senior Customer Success Architect

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022

Leeds, UK (Remote)

  • Provided expert level architectural guidance to multinational globally recognised companies.
  • Terraform SME (Subject Matter Expert) for HashiCorp, which includes product roadmap presentations.
  • Delivered hands on PoC and demos of Security, Service Mesh Networking and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Plan, design and host webinars to large groups of customers.
  • Contribute code and documentation to HashiCorp products.
  • Mentor and train junior team members.
  • Terraform
  • Vault
  • Consul
  • HCL
  • IaC

Maples Group

Principal Technical Architect

Apr 2019 – Oct 2021

Leeds, UK

  • Reported directly to the CIO, member of the IT Leadership team.
  • Responsible for public and hybrid cloud strategy, delivery and adoption.
  • Support recruiting and developing high performing DevOps teams.
  • Technical consultant across all IT functions and SaaS for business teams.
  • Strong focus on security, work in partnership with CISO.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code and brought Git to the operations function.
  • Azure
  • Cloud
  • Architecture
  • DevOps
  • Security

Head of Software Engineering

Jan 2017 – Apr 2019

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands / Montréal, Canada

  • Reported to CIO, member of IT Leadership team.
  • Responsible for 6 Software Engineering Teams and supporting functions (UX, QA, etc).
  • Managed 35 people across 2 locations.
  • Setup new function in Montreal, recruited and onboarded software engineering teams.
  • Made major improvements to CI/CD processes and the quality of code.
  • Delivered quality updates and additions to a suite of over 70 internal and client facing products.
  • Leadership
  • CI/CD
  • .NET
  • Agile
  • Recruitment

Software Development Manager

Nov 2012 – Jan 2017

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

  • Reported directly to CIO.
  • Setup a new office and team from scratch in the Cayman Islands.
  • Recruited and onboarded new software engineers, mainly from overseas and relocating.
  • Implemented CI/CD.
  • Upskilled the team with coding practices, such as TDD, SOLID, etc.
  • Leadership
  • CI/CD
  • TDD
  • .NET
  • Mentoring

eCommerce Software Team Leader

Dec 2011 – Nov 2012

Leeds, UK

  • Led an Agile development team delivering external-facing eCommerce web applications.
  • Drove quality and delivery of ASP.NET C# web sites for clients.
  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • Agile
  • Leadership
  • eCommerce

Software Developer

Jan 2010 – Dec 2011

Leeds, UK

  • Developed ASP.NET and SharePoint solutions, including core system migrations.
  • Delivered installation and configuration of third-party products alongside bespoke development.
  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • SharePoint
  • SQL Server

Cascade HR

Project Web Developer

Nov 2007 – Dec 2009

Leeds, UK

  • Senior developer in a team of 10, specialising in ASP.NET C# application development on a SQL Server backend.
  • Delivered project-based web development for HR software products.
  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • SQL Server

Skipton Financial Services

Business Systems Developer

Apr 2007 – Nov 2007

Skipton, UK

  • Lead developer consolidating bespoke systems into a single core third-party application.
  • Built ASP.NET functionality for financial advisers to view and manage their accounts.
  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • SQL Server
  • Finance

Carlsberg UK Ltd

Systems Engineer

Dec 2003 – Apr 2007

Leeds, UK

  • Developed ASP.NET C# and SQL Server applications as part of a small manufacturing IT team.
  • Provided IT support, network and Active Directory administration, and application support for production.
  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • SQL Server
  • Active Directory
  • Networking
  • Server Administration

Quality System Manager

May 2002 – Dec 2003

Leeds, UK

  • Managed auditing, document control and specification management for ISO 9001 accreditation.
  • Developed VBA and ASP.NET tooling to support quality processes.
  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • VBA
  • ISO 9001

Quality Assurance Technician

Aug 2000 – May 2002

Leeds, UK

  • Worked as a microbiologist conducting quality assurance testing in a brewery environment.
  • Managed and ran the brewery taste panel.
  • Microbiology
  • Quality Assurance
  • VBA

Education

BSc (hons) Biomedical Sciences

Sheffield Hallam University

1996 – 2000

photo of me

Skills

    • Cloud & IaC
    • Microsoft Azure
    • HashiCorp Terraform
    • Bicep
    • ARM Templates
      Languages
    • C#
    • Go
    • TypeScript / JavaScript
    • PowerShell
    • Bash
      Platforms & Tools
    • Azure DevOps
    • GitHub / GitHub Actions
    • Linux Administration
    • Windows Administration
      Architecture
    • Network Design
    • Cloud Landing Zones
    • ASP.NET
    • Technical Writing

Certifications

  • Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Azure Data Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate
  • Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
  • GitHub Copilot
  • GitHub Actions
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Interests

  • Distance running & daily exercise
  • Co-organiser of Yorkshire DevOps & Yorkshire Azure User Group
  • Live music
  • Diving & snorkelling
  • Spending time with family
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