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About Me


Christiaan leads feature strategy for Windows Cloud at Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager and Community Director, bringing his expertise to help customers imagine new Cloud, AI and virtualization experiences. A former Global Black Belt for Azure Virtual Desktop, Christiaan joined Microsoft in 2018 as part of the FSLogix acquisition (by Microsoft). He thrives best in startups (company/products) to make them successful.

Christiaan has been involved with Windows 365 from nearly the beginning—when it was still a visio stencil. In his role at Microsoft, he worked on features such as Windows 365 app, Switch, Boot and one of the founding members leading an incubation project that build the vision towards Windows 365 Link. His mission is to drive innovation while bringing Windows 365, AI, Windows, and Microsoft Intune closer together, drive community efforts around virtualization to empower Microsoft customers in leveraging new cloud virtualization scenarios. Christiaan is an author of 5 books, a regular keynote speaker – and also an inventor as he also owns 6 patents (like for Windows 365 Boot, Switch, Unified Management, Cloud Handoff and more) and won 4 Hackathons within Microsoft to drive a culture of innovation.

Christiaan’s latest new book just released called Mastering Windows 365 2nd edition which is NOW available via aka.ms/MasteringW365. He has also been rewarded with the Microsoft MVP, Nvidia NEPA, Citrix CTP, and VMware vExpert community achievements – for his continued support in the EUC community. There were only five people in the world that have all these titles combined – before Christiaan joined Microsoft.

He also co-leads the #DAASLIKEAPRO – state of the union community survey, is the founder of the Microsoft meets Community: Windows 365  event (aka.ms/w365event) and is the founder and co-host of the new technical-driven video podcast show called Windows in the Cloud.

Christiaan is a bestselling (almost 20k copies sold) author for Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Deploy and manage Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 365 on both physical and cloud PCs together with Per Larsen – which has been the #1 bestseller in Microsoft Books and Cloud Computing on Amazon Books in the first two weeks after releasing!. Previously, Christiaan also published a book called Book Project Byte-Sized – a new community project as co-author, which is now available on Amazon Books!

Besides his normal day job, he also shares his knowledge by speaking at large international conferences, such as Microsoft Ignite, VMware VMworld, Nvidia GTC, Citrix Synergy, ExpertsLive, Parallels Partner Conference, E2E – PubForum (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Athens, Lissabon, Berlin), local user groups (New York, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark User Group), and provides webinars and writes articles for IT vendors, as well as his website, christiaanbrinkhoff.com – to share his passion for Cloud innovation.

As already briefly mentioned above, this community-related work got him the privilege to achieve the following three vendor awards, such as Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) (Former – due to joining Microsoft) for Microsoft Azure, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), and VMware vExpert. The titles gave him the privilege to interact with product management and development teams within Citrix and VMware for problem-solving and future roadmap discussions. His blog received also the top 20 awards of best Azure Blogs and Websites To Follow in 2019 of feedspot.com – listed at #8, next to other great well-known blogs of the industry!

Christiaan is also part of the Microsoft Azure Advisors group and is an Azure Solutions Architect Expert, MCSE: Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, Azure Specialist, and MCSA Windows Desktop 7, 8 – 10 and Office 365.

I’ll hope you’ll come back soon and if you haven’t connected to me on my socials, let’s do it now…

Disclaimer: The blog posts or other publications are my own personal opinions and are by no means associated with my employer.

See his Certificate achievement at the following URL:
https://www.youracclaim.com/users/christiaan-brinkhoff 

Community (past and current) involvements

Certificates