Hi! I'm Lewis 👋
- 🤵 I work at Avanade, the leading GSI on the Microsoft platform, collaborating with enterprises and organisations to support them with their Microsoft Cloud implementations covering solutions on Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Copilot.
- 💻 I'm a bit of a low-code, AI 👀 lookin' at you Copilot 👀 and tech obsessed geek / #PowerAddict
- 🏫 I started my learning around Microsoft 365 & Power Platform whilst still at school and went straight into a software career working at a then Gold Microsoft Partner
- 🏆 I am a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications and Microsoft 365 categories. I was also recognised at the Digital Revolution Awards 2024 as the UK Rising Star of the Year. I was awarded best UK Microsoft community blogger in 2023, and contributed to winning best UK Microsoft community user group in 2024.
#CommunityRocks
- 🙌 I try to regularly contribute to the Microsoft and software development community via this blog, LewisDoes.Dev
- 💬 You can find me on LinkedIn where I post all things #Copilot, #AI, #SoftwareDevelopment, #LowCode and #Microsoft here
- 🐦 You can follow me on X at @lewisdoesdev
My Journey
So, my journey with low-code started a fair while ago through becoming a Microsoft 365 Administrator for my swimming club during COVID-19 lockdown between not doing my GCSE’s anymore, and becoming an A-Level student in September. I then went back to my studies in September and shortly after discovered an opportunity to volunteer, and work with my schools trust building a number of Power Platform solutions for faculty operations and classroom productivity, which I taught myself to do, with the support of the #Community.
Since leaving my Sixth Form college, I have worked at a couple Microsoft Partners / Consultancies and am currently working at the leading GSI on the Microsoft platform, Avanade, where I am a Consultant in the UKI Modern Workplace practice working with enterprises to support them with, and implement, solutions on the Microsoft platform covering a breadth of product areas such as Copilot, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph and more. Whilst I am a techie at heart ❤️, I also believe it is important to work with organisations to enable them to be successful with technology in a safe environment with the appropriate and relevant guardrails. Surrounding this focus, I do a lot of work with organisations surrounding the enablement of their digital ecosystems with more key focuses including things like product governance across Power Platform, Microsoft 365, use of Microsoft Purview, best practice development for security, maker enablement and more.
You can check out a bit more about my work back in Sixth Form below where myself and Microsoft Chief Troublemaker of all things Copilot Extensibilty, Dona Sarkar, discussed one of the solutions I built to solve classroom emergency situations using Low Code.
Community
Alongside this blog, I do a number of additional things in the Microsoft community which I’d like to share with you here! Check out some of these below, and be sure to let me know if you have any questions in the comments of this page, or via a chat if you’d prefer.
Conference Speaking
Microsoft Ignite 2022 – Why shift to a unified cloud ecosystem
One of my best conference speaking experiences so far has to be the opportunity I had to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2022 in Manchester for the UK spotlight. I joined Microsoft MVPs, Chris Huntingford, Charlie Phipps and Pieter Veenstra to discuss why we should, or perhaps shouldn’t shift to a unified cloud ecosystem. This was a fantastic talk and a great experience for my first Microsoft hosted event.
One of the fantastic conferences I’ve had the pleasure to speak at is the London Automation Summit where I discussed how we can start to build with Low Code differently when we take contextual data into account, provided by Microsoft Graph, which sits in the surrounding Microsoft Cloud. We finished this session with the solution of a meeting room door overview app to display events in a meeting room on the current day.
Webcast, Video & YouTube content
Check out webcast, video and YouTube content from me below...