Janusz Nowak

Microsoft MVP, Solution Architect, Developer, DevOps, Cloud, Lean Geek Azure Heroes Microsoft Certified Trainer.

About me

Hi, there ! My name is Janusz Nowak, let share few words about me :)

I Graduated 2008 University of Warsawuw, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics MIMUW where I study computer science.

I am a Software Developer/Architect with over 15 years of experience, flustered with approach “It works on my computer” use DevOps practice for over 11 years, natural path going Cloud 7 years.

I am passionate about Lean, DevOps, Application Life Cycle Management, Cloud, Server less and Infrastructure as Code. I try to share knowledge, expertise. Involved in many different activities, like this blog, workshops/session/event/online videos/community meetings/conferences speaking/creating software/open source.

You can find lates activities on profile blog, linkedin, twitter, github, youtube, stackoverflow

Here are few of certifications, awards and honors I received.

Azure Cloud

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert,Earning the DevOps Engineer Expert certification demonstrates the ability to combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives. DevOps professionals streamline delivery by optimizing practices, improving communications and collaboration, and creating automation. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert,Earning the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification demonstrates subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate,Earning Azure Security Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement security controls and threat protection, manage identity and access, and protect data, applications, and networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of end-to-end infrastructure. Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (Legacy),Earning Azure Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement, manage, and monitor an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment. Candidates have a deep understanding of each implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment, plus provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources, when needed. Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate,Earning Azure Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement, manage, and monitor an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment. Candidates have a deep understanding of each implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment, plus provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources, when needed. Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate,Earning the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge required to build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. Candidates understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio. Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate,Earning the Database Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement and manage the operational aspects of cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions built on Microsoft Azure data services and Microsoft SQL Server. The Azure Database Administrator uses a variety of methods and tools to perform day-to-day operations, including applying knowledge of using T-SQL for administrative management purposes. Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate,Earning the Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge required to enable businesses to maximize the value of their data assets by using Microsoft Power BI. As a subject matter expert, Data Analysts are responsible for designing and building scalable data models, cleaning and transforming data, and enabling advanced analytic capabilities that provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations. Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate,Earning the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and expertise in integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems into structures that are suitable for building analytics solutions. Candidates have a solid knowledge of data processing languages, such as SQL, Python, or Scala, and they need to understand parallel processing and data architecture patterns. Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty,Earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty certification validates experience and knowledge for the implementation and the coding required to create and maintain the cloud and edge portion of an IoT solution. In addition to configuring and maintaining the devices by using cloud services, the IoT Developer also sets up the physical devices. The IoT Developer is responsible for maintaining the devices throughout the life cycle. Microsoft Certified Trainer 2022-2023,Many of Microsoft’s software and technologies are technically complex, and professionals may require training from knowledgeable trainers in aspects of their use. In order to make such training generally available, Microsoft has developed the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Program which grants membership to professional trainers and learning consultants who demonstrate and maintain technical and instructional expertise on Microsoft technologies and who have complied with all requirements. Microsoft Certified Trainer 2021-2022,Many of Microsoft’s software and technologies are technically complex, and professionals may require training from knowledgeable trainers in aspects of their use. In order to make such training generally available, Microsoft has developed the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Program which grants membership to professional trainers and learning consultants who demonstrate and maintain technical and instructional expertise on Microsoft technologies and who have complied with all requirements. Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals,Earners of the Azure Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure. Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals,Earning the Microsoft 365 Fundamentals certification demonstrates an understanding of the options available in Microsoft 365 and the benefits of adopting cloud services, the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model, and implementing Microsoft 365 cloud service. Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals,Earners of the Azure AI Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and related Microsoft Azure services.Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals,Earners of the Azure Data Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how they are implemented using Microsoft Azure data services. Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals,Earners of the Power Platform Fundamentals certification are users who aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences. Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals,Earners of the Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals demonstrate a functional understanding of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions,Passing exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions validates the skills and knowledge to combine people, processes, and technologies to deliver valuable products and services that meet end-user needs and business objectives. Candidates optimize practices, improve communications, and create automation to streamline delivery. They design and implement strategies for application code and infrastructure for continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring and feedback. AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design,Passing Exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design validates the skills and knowledge to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. *This exam is now retired. AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies,Passing Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies validates the skills and knowledge to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. *This exam is now retired. DP-201 Designing an Azure Data Solution,Passing exam DP-201 validates the skills and knowledge to design Azure data storage solutions that use relational and non-relational data stores, batch and real-time data processing, and data security and compliance solutions. Earners are able to implement data solutions that use the following Azure services: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Storage and Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Databricks, and Azure Blob storage. *This exam is now retired. DP-200 Implementing an Azure Data Solution,Passing exam DP-200 Implementing an Azure Data Solution validates the skills and knowledge to implement security requirements, data retention policies, identify performance bottlenecks, and access external data sources. Earners are able to implement data solutions that use the following Azure services: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Storage and Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics and Databricks, and Azure Blob storage. *This exam is now retired. MCSA: Web Applications - Certified 2016,Earners of the MCSA: Web Applications certification have demonstrated the skills required to implement modern web apps. They are qualified for a position as a web developer or web administrator. Exam 496: Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server,Passing Exam 496: Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server validates the skills and knowledge necessary to manage software development using Team Foundation Server in an enterprise development environment. Candidates demonstrate the ability to install, configure, manage and customize Team Foundation Server (TFS) as well as administer version control. Exam 487: Developing Microsoft Azure and Web Services,Passing Exam 487: Developing Microsoft Azure and Web Services validates the skills and knowledge necessary to develop Web Services. Candidates demonstrate the ability to assess Azure data, manipulate and query data using Entity Framework, as well as designing and implementing WCF and Web API-based services. Exam 486: Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications,Passing Exam 486: Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications validates a candidate’s ability to design the user experience, security solutions, and application architecture as well as troubleshoot and debug web applications. Exam 480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3,Passing Exam 480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 validates a candidate’s ability to access and secure data as well as implement document structures, objects, and program flow. OpenHack: DevOps,Earners of the OpenHack: DevOps badge have fundamental understanding of the DevOps practices required to achieve zero downtime deployment of containerized micro-services running in Azure. The scenario is a real-world simulation focused on DevOps practices including Continuous Integration, Testing, Delivery, Monitoring and Security. Participants improve delivery velocity and release quality while minimizing downtime using DevOps tools including but not limited to GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Bicep.

Azure Hero

Azure Hero - Community Azure Hero - Maker Azure Hero - Maker Azure Hero - Builder Azure Hero - Kudos

DevOps

DevOps Foundation® Certification DevOps Foundation® Certification DevOps Leader® Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠ DevSecOps Foundation℠

Safe

Certified SAFe® 5 Architect,A Certified SAFe® 5 Architect (ARCH) is an effective leader and change agent who delivers Agile Architecture to enable the creation of business value. Key areas of competency include applying SAFe principles to develop and maintain Agile Architecture and release on demand, leading and supporting Solution Trains and Agile Release Trains, extending the principles driving continuous flow to large systems-of-systems, and enabling improved flow of value. Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner,A Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner (SDP) is a SAFe professional responsible for improving the complete flow of value through a Continuous Delivery Pipeline from idea to operational solution. Key areas of responsibility include participating in Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Release-on-Demand, continuous testing, continuous security, and building a culture of shared responsibility. Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner,A Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner (SP) is a SAFe team member professional responsible for using Scrum, Kanban, and XP in a SAFe environment. Key areas of responsibility include planning Program Increments and iterations, breaking requirements into stories, developing incrementally with built-in quality, demoing value at a team and program level, and problem solving impediments to drive relentless improvement. Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist,A Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist (SA) is a SAFe enterprise leadership professional who is part of a Lean-Agile transformation. Key areas of competency include the application of Lean-Agile principles, execution and release of value through Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and building an Agile portfolio with Lean-Agile budgeting.

P&G

Friends of BI Master - Power BI,Earner can develop end-to-end data analytics skills such as effectively querying databases using SQL, applying transformations on large datasets using Databricks, orchestrating workloads using Azure Data Factory, and more. Also, earner has a foundational understanding of cloud data solutions available in Azure. Friends of BI Wizard - Power BI,Earner has gained advanced skills for designing and building scalable data models, cleaning and transforming data, enabling advanced analytic capabilities that provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations and is equipped with fundamental understanding of data repositories and data processing both on-premises and in the cloud. Friends of BI Builder - Power BI,Earner can leverage basic Power BI skills to perform data ingestion, basic modeling, and tell a data driven story. This is recommended for knowledge workers at P&G who are non-technical users that expect to interact with data to tell a data driven story and foster additional insights to support a business process. D&A Extended DevOps (level 1) at P&G,The earner is capable to develop Data & Analytics Applications in Cloud environments, leveraging key components such as storage accounts, computing and reporting layers by creating E2E Data Pipelines, from ingesting data from sources up to delivering reporting/presentation layers to be leveraged by end-users.

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2023

Microsoft Ignite 2023

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Microsoft Ignite called ignite is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft. Started in 1993 knows as TechEd, Microsoft al...

Github Azure DevOps SpeedTest

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Github Azure DevOps SpeedTest - Measures the network latency between your browser and GitHub and each of the Azure DevOps region. It allow you to choose best...

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2022

Microsoft Spring Skills Challenge

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This spring, with the goal of boosting your career by adding new skills and certifications, Microsoft invite you to join the Microsoft Spring Skills Challeng...

Microsoft Ignite 2022

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Microsoft Ignite called ignite is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft. Started in 1993 knows as TechEd, Microsoft al...

Azure Cloud prepare Workshops

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It is happening from time to time that you want to share your passion and knowledge about Azure Cloud with community on workshops. First issues that you are...

Microsoft Build 2022

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Microsoft Build called build is an annual conference event held by Microsoft, aimed at software engineers,web developers using Microsoft Azure and other not ...

Azure Bicep Modules

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On previous posts we have been introduced, how to get started, use extension or migrate from ARM templates for azure bicep or how to use in Continuous Delive...

Women In Tech Summit 2022

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On amazing event The biggest celebration of Women in Tech & IT on 7-8 June 2022 Women In Tech Summit.I have got a please to run lecture, workshop about W...

Global Azure 2022

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The Global Azure community is truly global. People all around the world are striving through the pandemic, driven by their passion to share their knowledge w...

Warszawskie Dni Informatyki 2022

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On amazing event Warsaw IT Days on 1-2 April 2022 Warszawskie Dni Informatyki 2022. I have got a please to run session about Why DevOps and Cloud. On example...

Microsoft Spring Skills Challenge

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This spring, with the goal of boosting your career by adding new skills and certifications, Microsoft invite you to join the Microsoft Spring Skills Challeng...

Inżynierskie Targi Pracy 2022

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On-line recording of the 28th Engineering Job Fair 2022. During which I had the pleasure to explain what “DevOps” is and conduct workshops showing the use of...

Microsoft Azure Certifications Path 2022

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With new 2022 year there was also introduced new certification path, there was some new certification introduced. Microsoft Certification poster (digital).

Microsoft Azure Bicep VsCode Extension

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On previous post how to migrate from existing ARM template to Azure Bicep. On this one we will cover about tooling with can support our development.

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2017

Microsoft Connect 2017

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Info about event here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/connectevent

Microsoft Cosmos DB in Azure Storage Explorer

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The extension allows you to manage Cosmos DB entities, manipulate data, create and update stored procedures, triggers, as well as User Defined Functions. Azu...

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