Available for contract - Outside IR35

Michael Fernandez

Senior .NET platform engineer. Backend-led, Azure-native, and comfortable across the full delivery stack - from API design to CI/CD to cloud infrastructure.

// .NET experience - the full migration path

Framework
4.x

Core
2 / 3

.NET
5 / 6

.NET
7 / 8

.NET
10/+

20+ years - greenfield builds and legacy maintenance/modernisation, end to end

Focus areas

Backend & API Design

C# and .NET across the full stack of modern patterns - CQRS, Clean Architecture, MediatR, Entity Framework, Dapper - with a strong emphasis on testability and loose coupling.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Azure-native infrastructure provisioned with Terraform and Bicep. AKS, App Gateway, Service Bus, Entra ID, and the full Azure PaaS toolkit. CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.

AI-Augmented Delivery

Actively exploring how tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot change .NET delivery - governance models, agentic coding workflows, and practical integration into engineering teams.

Selected experience

2026 - present

Current

Independent .NET Consultant

Pentrale Solutions Ltd

Took a planned break for home renovations after the I Am Property engagement.
Now, rebuilding prior projects on modern .NET and Azure patterns, and evaluating agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) ahead of returning to a permanent or contract role.

2025 - 2026

Contract Senior .NET Engineer

I Am Property Ltd

Modernised a legacy .NET Framework platform into modular, independently deployable services. CI/CD pipelines, SQL performance, TestContainers, and AI-assisted documentation.

2024

Contract Senior .NET Engineer

Code String Ltd

Terraform to Bicep migration; RBAC rollout eliminating credential-based secrets; Blazor server-side development.

2023 - 2024

Contract Senior .NET Engineer

Crosslake Technologies

Full Azure subscription provisioning for a Fintech startup using Terraform and GitHub Actions. .NET Web API on Azure Container Apps.

2022 - 2023

Contract Senior .NET Engineer

Intechnica Ltd

Migrated legacy DTS package logic to a .NET Web API hosted on Azure. Collaborated on Python test automation tooling and implemented CI/CD pipelines in Bitbucket Pipelines.

2019 - 2022

Contract Senior .NET Engineer

Tunstall UK Ltd

Led migration from NginX Kubernetes cluster to Azure Application Gateway + AKS. Built ADO pipelines for multi-repo legacy products.

earlier

20+ years of .NET contract and permanent roles

ADESA, NexSys, Resonate, Next Plc, Fujitsu, and others

Full history available on LinkedIn.

Technical skills

Core

C# .NET 10 Web API Azure CI/CD TypeScript T-SQL Python PowerShell

Architecture & Patterns

Clean Architecture CQRS SOLID MediatR Entity Framework Dapper Blazor React Angular MVC Fluent Validation

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure AKS App Gateway Service Bus Entra ID Terraform Bicep Docker Kubernetes

DevOps & Quality

GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Bitbucket Pipelines xUnit / NUnit TDD BDD (SpecFlow) TestContainers Playwright Cypress SonarCloud OWASP VERACODE

Auth & Security

Azure Entra ID Auth0 Okta JWT