James Pogran

James Pogran is a senior software engineer at Puppet, focusing on making Windows automation even better with Puppet. He wrote a book called Learning PowerShell DSC, which is in its second edition. James co-authored the Puppet Visual Studio Code extension, and contributes to several OSS projects on GitHub. He has been working with computers in some form or fashion for over 15 years. His first job was systems administration for a large military installation, then he moved on to developing monitoring software and automating large scale Windows environments for a major managed services provider. He loves finding out how things work, taking them apart, and making them work faster.