Sr Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft · Brasília, Brazil AI Landing Zone · Azure · GitHub Copilot · ~30 years building software
- 14+ years at Microsoft — Sr CSA → CSA Engineering → Sr Azure Customer Engineer → Sr Premier Field Engineer
- ~30 years across architecture, development, support and enablement
- Bilingual: Português (nativo) · English (full professional)
- Past instructor: SUN Microsystems Official Java Instructor, Visual Basic, Visual InterDev — plus internal Power Platform and Azure mentoring tracks
- AI architectures on Azure — AI Landing Zone, RAG, generative AI patterns
- AKS + KEDA — containerized workloads with scale-to-zero
- DevOps with GitHub — from CI/CD to GitHub Copilot enablement at customers
- Cloud cost optimization — architectural design + governance for ongoing savings
- Hands-on customer training — GitHub Copilot, Power Platform, Azure
- Knowledge artifacts with DOI (Zenodo) — see the AI CoE Playbook below
| Repo | What it shows | Domain |
|---|---|---|
| ai-coe-playbook ⭐ | Playbook + assessment framework (NIST AI RMF / ISO 42001 / EU AI Act). Released with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20357199 |
AI governance |
| internal-apim | Azure API Management Internal VNet via Terraform, CAF naming, private DNS | Networking / IaC |
| teams_msgs | Proactive messaging at scale (50k msgs) with Bot Framework + Service Bus + Redis token bucket | Teams / Bot |
| upload_quarkus | Quarkus 3.17 + Java 21 + AKS + KEDA scale-to-zero | AKS / Java |
| obo_spo | On-Behalf-Of flow with Microsoft Graph and SharePoint | Identity / Graph |
| geoloc | Azure Maps + Functions (.NET 8) + React Native (Expo) | Mobile / Functions |
Azure (IaaS / PaaS / SaaS) · AKS · KEDA · Terraform · Bicep · PowerShell
Entra ID · Microsoft Graph · On-Behalf-Of · Workload Identity
Azure AI Foundry · RAG · GitHub Copilot · Bot Framework · Service Bus
C# / .NET 8 · Java 21 / Quarkus · TypeScript · PowerShell
Active — Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Administrator Associate · Developer Associate · Network Engineer Associate
Active — GitHub Foundations · Actions · Advanced Security · Administration · Copilot
Active — Linux Foundation Kubernetes Fundamentals · Containers Fundamentals · Cloud Native Essentials · Open Source IT
Microsoft Fundamentals & Specialist (lifetime credentials) Azure AI · Azure Data · Azure · M365 · Power Platform · Dynamics 365 (+ CRM) · Security, Compliance & Identity · Microsoft Certified Educator · Microsoft Specialist (Programming in C# · HTML5/JS/CSS3 · Azure Infrastructure) · MCP · MCTS / MCITP SharePoint 2010
Selected history Microsoft Certified Trainer (multiple cycles since 2019) · DevOps Engineer Expert · AI Engineer Associate · Identity & Access Administrator · Azure Security Engineer · Azure Stack Hub Operator · Azure Virtual Desktop · Power Platform Solution Architect Expert · M365 Teams Support · AWS Solutions Architect Associate · AWS Cloud Practitioner · Linux Foundation KCNA · LFCA · Sun Certified Java Programmer (2000) · Borland Delphi Certified Developer (1997, 2000) · MCSD .NET (2005) · MCAD .NET (2003)
📊 Microsoft Learn transcript: 705 modules · 145 learning paths · 485 hours
1995 Borland Delphi trainer → 1997 Web / COM / DCOM architect → 2002 Java + Microsoft team lead → 2009 SharePoint architect → 2011 Sr Premier Field Engineer (Microsoft) → 2020 Sr Azure Customer Engineer → 2022 CSA Engineering → 2023 Sr Cloud Solution Architect
- Bachelor, Software Engineering — Anhanguera Educacional (Aug 2022 – Dec 2025) · Grade 9.96
- Specialization, Guns, Ammunition & Ballistics — Centro de Ensino Superior de Vitória — CESV (Jan 2024 – Jul 2025)
- Bachelor, Mathematics — Estácio (2020 – Apr 2024) · Grade 9.57
- Associate, Photography — Anhanguera Educacional (2022 – 2023) · Grade 10.0
- Associate, Analysis & Development of Systems — Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul (2016 – 2019) · Grade 9.34
- Computer Science — Universidade Católica de Brasília (1995 – 1998) · UFSCar (1993 – 1994)
- LinkedIn — /in/edneim
- ORCID 0009-0006-0765-4201
- AI CoE Playbook site: edneimonteiro.github.io/ai-coe-playbook
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