By This time, we are meeting Leon, who is a very passionate about sharing his knowledge with the community and help others! He is definitely one of those guys that you go to to get your stuff done! Let’s get to know him better:
Q: Please tell us a little about yourself and your background.
A: My name is Leon Laude, I work as a full time consultant in mid-size company in Stockholm, Sweden. My focus is mainly on Microsoft products, such as Windows Server, System Center, Hyper-V, Azure, Active Directory and a few others. I started working with these roughly 7 years ago, I started my IT career as a help desk agent, then I moved on to 2nd line support for workstations and printers, and eventually I ended up working with everything within the data center such as servers, firewalls, networks and storage within the Windows environment.
Q: I see you are very active on Technet Forums and also run your personal blog. What attracted you to get involved into community contributions?
A: I like to help people, I have always liked helping others, it brings me joy in life and I can also learn many new things by helping others.
I’ve known the Microsoft TechNet community for quite some time now, and I’ve noticed how many questions get asked there, but there are also many questions that are struggling to get some answers. There is clearly a big need of more help there, so I thought that I can share my knowledge with others, and maybe it could be useful or help them out, so I ended up contributing to the community by answering and troubleshooting people’s questions and also writing Wiki articles.
Q: What technologies do you think are on the rise dominantly in near future?
A: This is always an interesting question, but I think we can all agree on that the cloud is growing bigger and becoming more popular.
From what I hear and experience from current customers and colleagues, many companies want to go with the hybrid model, meaning having both on-premises and cloud services.
From what I hear and experience from current customers and colleagues, many companies want to go with the hybrid model, meaning having both on-premises and cloud services.
Another technology that is rising is containers, I believe this will also play a bigger role in the future.
Q: What advice would you give to the new IT professionals to be successful in their journey?
A: What you need to know about IT is that it’s constantly changing, find something you feel comfortable to work with and something you enjoy doing.
Don’t get stuck with some tool, because it won’t last forever, try to be open to new things and keep yourself up-to date with where the IT industry is heading.
Don’t get stuck with some tool, because it won’t last forever, try to be open to new things and keep yourself up-to date with where the IT industry is heading.
It is also very important to keep a good balance between your work and your personal life.
Q: What do you enjoy to do when you’re not working?
A: I spend a lot of time contributing to the Microsoft TechNet community, because I enjoy doing it, which doesn’t actually leave me that much time to do other things.
My other passions are travelling around the world, doing sports to keep myself fit, being with my girlfriend, family and friends. I do love the nature and I’ve always liked exploring and trying out new things!
My other passions are travelling around the world, doing sports to keep myself fit, being with my girlfriend, family and friends. I do love the nature and I’ve always liked exploring and trying out new things!
Thanks for the interview! 🙂
Thanks a lot Leon for chatting with us!
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Cheers
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