Staff Systems Engineer with 20+ years designing and operating modern endpoint and virtual desktop platforms at enterprise scale. I lead Azure cloud engineering for a 10,800+ desktop Citrix DaaS estate — Cloud PC build-out, Entra ID group-based targeting, golden-image lifecycle and patch governance — and I've delivered two production migrations off VMware into the cloud.
My default tool is automation: PowerShell modules and REST API integration against Horizon, Citrix DaaS and Windows 365.
This account is my personal work. Most of what I build day to day lives in private repos — client sites, internal tooling and the infrastructure behind a handful of small businesses — so what's public here is the part I can show.
I run an AI-assisted engineering workflow daily — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini and ChatGPT — and I'm Google Generative AI Leader certified.
The point isn't the tooling, it's what gets shipped with it.
profile-cards-azure below is a
worked example: a third-party service my profile depended on shut down, so the
replacement was designed, built and deployed to Azure — Terraform, CI with secret
scanning, a scheduled render pipeline and a live custom domain — in a single working
session, at $0/month.
Cloud & infrastructure
Virtual desktop & endpoint
Languages & scripting
Web
Every card here renders from my own platform on Azure rather than a third-party service. Most of my commits land in private repositories, so they're rendered under my own token to count that work — private repos are ranked but never named.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| profile-cards-azure | The platform rendering the cards above. Prerenders five SVGs every six hours in GitHub Actions and serves them from Azure Static Web Apps — Terraform, CI with secret scanning, $0/month, and no traffic from anyone else can load it. |
| Terraform_ADM | Multi-region Azure web platform in Terraform: Debian + nginx across Central US and East US behind Traffic Manager, with scheduled power on/off for cost control. |
| realestate | Real-estate investment analysis platform on Azure — FastAPI + React, Container Apps, Azure SQL, background jobs and branded PDF reporting. |
| OlindaJohnsonSpeaks | Marketing site for a CEU speaker and trainer working with nursing organizations. |
| donteisha-samuel-portfolio | Portfolio site for an instructional and learner-experience designer. |
| NewUbuntuSetup | Bash provisioning script for a fresh Ubuntu workstation. |