My name is Michael Kaufmann but most people call me Mike.

I’m the founder and CEO of Xpirit Germany. I work in Germany – but I live with my family in south Spain (Marbella).

I’m a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) I’m also a Microsoft MVP for DevOps ever since 2015 and I write and talk about .Net, Git and GitHub, Azure, DevOps, Scrum, Clean Code and PowerShell.

I’m the author of the book Git for Dummies (in German) and I’m writing my next book about DevOps and GitHub. This time in English.

I help teams and organizations adopting DevOps practices and agile management techniques. I also support big projects and solutions to find a scalable and permanent software architecture.

In my spare time I’m a kitesurfer and a Taekwondo blackbelt.

Certifications

PSM I: Professional Scrum Master I

PSPO I: Professional Scrum Product Owner I

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer – Application Lifecycle Management

PRINCE2® Practitioner

PRINCE2® Foundation

RHCE: Red Hat Ceretified Egnineer

ITIL V3 Foundation

CCA: Citrix Certified Administrator

CCSP: Citrix Certified Sales Professional

70-512 TS: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, Administration

70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

70-576 Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

MCPD: Microsoft Certified Professional Developer – SharePoint Developer 2010

MCTS SharePoint 2010, Application Development

MCAD: Microsoft Certified Application Developer

MCSD: Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Microsoft .Net

MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Application Development

MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Configuration

MCTS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development