Hi, I'm Joel.
I'm an Azure and platform engineering enthusiast from Switzerland. I work with cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and the operational foundations that keep modern systems maintainable over time. My main focus is Azure: designing clean cloud environments, building reliable infrastructure, improving governance, and understanding the details that separate a simple deployment from a real platform.
This blog is my public technical journal. I use it to document what I learn, what I build, and how I think through architecture decisions — not only the finished solutions, but the trade-offs behind them: why a design works, where it can fail, and how it can be improved.
My long-term goal is to grow into the kind of engineer who contributes real value to the Azure community — through practical guides, deep technical write-ups, open documentation, and eventually speaking or community involvement.
I care about infrastructure that is secure, understandable, documented, and maintainable. This site is where I build that knowledge in public.
What I write about
Azure Architecture
Landing zones, subscription design, cloud foundations
Networking
Private endpoints, DNS, VPNs, firewalls
Identity & Security
Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, identity security
Infrastructure as Code
Bicep, Terraform, automation
Governance & Operations
Azure Policy, monitoring, operations
Platform Engineering
Kubernetes, GitOps, observability
Troubleshooting & Lessons
Real-world fixes and lessons learned