Tom is Senior Program Manager in the Azure Security Center team at Microsoft.

Prior to this, he has been working in different internal IT and consulting roles for almost two decades, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure, architecture, and security.

As founder and community lead of Azure Meetup Saarbruecken, as a well-known international conference speaker, tech blogger, and book author, and as one of the founders and organizers of the Azure Saturday community conferences, the former Microsoft MVP is actively taking his experience into international tech communities.

In his spare time, Tom is an enthusiastic motorcyclist, scuba diver, guitar and bass player, drummer, and station officer at a local fire department.