Merill Fernando

Co-Founder

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia28 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Azure Active Directory and cloud solutions.
Co-founder of multiple community-driven tech initiatives.
Proven track record in leading digital workplace transformations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused architect with extensive experience in cloud solutions and digital workplace technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Azure Active DirectoryCustomer EngagementDevopsDigital Workplace SolutionsCloud MigrationMicrosoft 365Licensing

Other Skills

Identity Graph APIGraph PowerShellArtificial Intelligence (AI)SQL ServerASP.NET.NETC#LINQWPFSharePointXMLT-SQLVisual StudioSQLAJAX

About

A systems architect/developer/integrator whose one true passion is to build and enable software that delights users.

Experience

28 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

6 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Senior Product Manager

Mar 2020 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs

Senior member of the "Customer Success Team," a new engineering role where we engage with elite customers of Azure Active Directory Premium and hand hold them through deployments, helping with planning, debugging and driving feedback into the feature teams.
My special focus area is on the Azure AD Extensibility chapter which includes DevOps, Identity Graph API and Graph PowerShell.

Azure Active DirectoryCustomer Engagement

Jozra

Co-Founder

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 4 mos

Co-author of weekly Entra.News newsletter
Host of the weekly Entra.Chat podcast
Co-founder maester.dev
Community tools: Graph X-Ray, Lokka (Graph MCP), Graph Permissions Explorer and more

Telstra

Engineering Lead

Jan 2014 – Nov 2019 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Melbourne, Australia

Telstra's workplace technologies Engineer Lead for all major Digital Workplace Solutions and initiatives.
In the last four years I have been responsible for migrating a number of key employee facing applications for an 80k+ user base from on-prem to the cloud/SaaS hosted solutions.
General: DevOps and Technical Governance Lead for Telstra's Corporate and Retail Office 365 Tenants
General: Technical input for Microsoft EA negotiations
General: Azure Active Directory (Architect)
General: DevOps Lead managing Telstra's Apple Business Portal account and Google Enterprise Account
2019: Microsoft Azure Active Directory - Identity
Conditional Access, Password Hash Sync Staged Migration, Seamless SSO
Azure Hybrid Join
2019: Microsoft 365 Licensing Solution (Architect)
2018: Microsoft Intune - Mobile Device Management Corporate Roll Out
2018: Telstra Formify (Architect)
2018: Salesforce + SharePoint Online Integration (Architect)
Integration of SalesForce document repository with SharePoint
2018: Telstra Intranet Bot (Architect)
2018: Telstra Unified Point of Sale Solution on Dynamics 365 (Architecture Integration Reviewer)
2017: SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Online Migration (Architect)
2017: Corporate Intranet Uplift - Unily (Telstra Architect)
Technical analysis of competing production and selection of cloud based system
2017: Azure DevOps - VSTS - CI/CD Setup (Architect)
Migration from on-prem Jenkins and GitLab to Azure DevOps
2017: Telstra Leadership Scorecard (Architect)
Web Based solution for Telstra's Senior Leadership Team
2016: Telstra Ask HR - (DevOps Lead)
Award Winner https://www.steptwo.com.au/award-winner/telstra-transforming-experience-hr-systems/
2015: Telstra HR Me Page (Architect)
Innovation Award https://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/hr-intranets-go-to-the-next-level-026783.php
2015: Microsoft Office 365: SharePoint Online (Architect)