Michael Washam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Opsgility (Windows Azure Training).

He has extensive history in the IT Industry where he has worked as an IT Professional, Developer, Evangelist and Program Manager. While at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the Windows Azure Runtime Team, Michael led the release of the Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets for compute and the Windows Azure SDK (runtime).

As a Senior Technical Evangelist Michael worked on the initial Windows Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service launch. In this role Michael also shipped the IaaS Windows Azure training kit, and the Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets for IaaS and Cloud Services. Michael is a globally recognized speaker at conferences such as BUILD and TechEd, avid blogger, speaker, and trainer on cloud computing, debugging, and DevOps.