As CEO and co-founder of Zure in the UK, Rik helps organisations large and small use cloud better. Whether that’s a new adoption where governance and management are key, or an application modernisation project where technology choice and team knowledge are the deciding factors in success.
Through his public speaking and community involvement, Rik is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Programme award for his work with Azure. He is also proud to be a member of the Microsoft Regional Director Programme. As an event organiser, speaker and — on a good week — blogger, Rik is keen to share what he knows with the community, and to encourage and support others doing the same.
Rik is part of the central organising team for the Global Azure worldwide event, and for many years was involved in organising the DDD and DDD North community events in the UK.
His grey hair is an indication of how long he has worked in IT, and in that time he’s done most of what you’d expect of an IT Pro: from crawling under floors pulling cables, to managing large-scale automated OS rollouts, to architecting solutions on-premises and in the cloud. These days he spends more time working with his customers’ management, sharing that breadth of experience — and still learning.
About this blog#
When Software Attacks! has been running since 2007. The posts here span SharePoint 2007 and Windows Server on through to Azure, Bicep and Container Apps — a reasonably honest record of what has been occupying and occasionally defeating me for nearly two decades. Older posts are preserved as originally written; treat anything with a date on it accordingly.
Elsewhere#
- Zure — where I work
- Sessionize profile — talks and sessions
- Microsoft MVP profile
- Microsoft RD profile
- Global Azure — the worldwide community event
You can also find me on LinkedIn, GitHub, Mastodon and Bluesky.