About Me: Roberto - Your Guide in the Cloud

Hello there! I'm Roberto, and I'm thrilled to welcome you to allthingscloud.net. If you're passionate about technology, especially Microsoft Azure, and believe in the power of continuous learning and knowledge sharing, you've come to the right spot.

My Journey: From a Commodore Amiga to the Cloud

My fascination with technology sparked early. I still remember the sense of wonder I felt using my first computer, a Commodore Amiga (mid 80s).

That initial curiosity propelled me to dive deep into the world of computing. I pursued a Bachelor of Computer Science at the prestigious National University of México (UNAM).

It was there as an intern in the university's supercomputer lab, that I got my hands on incredible machines like Silicon Graphics

NeXT

and Digital Equipment Computers (DEC) in which I learned Unix (their version was called Ultrix) and even the legendary Cray supercomputer.

Those formative experiences solidified my passion and set me on a path I’ve enthusiastically followed for over two decades.

I eventually left University and got my 1st job as a C developer (not the fanciest) but was interesting, have to confess I never enjoyed being sitting on a chair 9-6 just looking at at terminal and even more because my previous computers were all amazing and GUI based, and then:

Not only that the OS wasn't Unix it was VMS 😬😵

Eventually I moved from there and went back to work on one of the firsts Internet Providers in México, I saw the position in the newspaper job section (think about that today in 2025)

and to connect to the Internet you had to dial a phone number where you were connected to one of this:

I remember while there I developed the accounting mechanism using perl and regular expressions, parsing the tacacs logs from the Cisco router, piped in real time and exported to a CSV, magic. I've always loved writing scripts since I discovered it. Here's a sample of a regular expression:

^(?:(\w+\s+\d+\s+\d+:\d+:\d+)|(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:
\d{2}:\d{2}(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z|[+-]\d{2}:\d{2})?))\s+

I wasn't there for long because I was aiming for another company, I pushed very hard to work at, I send them emails, plenty, called them, got interviews and got in an amazing company called EDS.

This has to be one of the best ever job journeys I've ever had. Being that young, having faced so many hard challenges far away from home, taught me to: Trust my self and to find information when access to the internet was nowhere close to what's today, sometimes it was going straight to the product manual and try commands or being on the phone with someone 4,000 Km away to exchange ideas, plans, or support.

At the same time other things were happening, the Internet started to explode for everyone, everywhere, mail servers, web browsers, web servers, .coms. I had to be there and I co-founded a company which was successful for having the vision but failed in execution and I was faced with a decision, do I create another company or go for a job?

I remember browsing the web, going to a job search site, saw the the requirement: ‘content specialist’. We had developed our own content management server at the .com and I knew plenty about it. The ad didn't mention the company and I applied, fast forward to:

I spent 8 years at the company and they have been one of they very best ever, fun, intense, interesting, challenging, confusing, amazing. I became specialist for a lot of products even more interesting considering I had never be a Windows or Microsoft professional, all my career I spent it working on all things but Windows. Prior to it, I only worked in Unix, Linux, PHP, vi, perl, awk and also at some point I was a volunteer at the Linux Foundation to the point that my email address was: roberto@linux.com

That era of my life finished and I moved to create my own company, a professional service company, called ZSENI a word that in hungarian means ‘genius’.

Take into consideration this logo was created in 2009 and had a cloud when that technology was extremely new.

All things were working fine and living the life of the entrepreneur was a combination of excitement, depression, sugar rush and anxiety all combined within seconds of each other.

We were doing Sharepoint implementations, Office 365 migrations, very, very early in the market, no doubt. Our customers were some of the largest companies in the country, had two success customer stories published by Microsoft, we worked on the Office product launch of that year. Was an excellent experience.

At the same time on my personal life something changed, my then partner and now wife was offered a job in Australia; a country I had never thought moving to.

Melbourne became my home and after almost 15 years (2025) I can say I love the city, its nature and vibe.

One day I thought about writing this blog to share my experience dealing with technology, Azure in specific when I started to work with in 2011 migrating on-prem websites to what was then call ‘Cloud Services’ running Wordpress and here it is and I still share things I come across, experiments, ideas, architecture views, on and on. Below is the Azure logo at the time

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