Empowering small businesses to reclaim time and accelerate growth through AI-powered automation | Inventor | Keynote Speaker

I lead enterprise AI adoption — turning ambition into execution.

With over 25 years guiding organizational transformation across industries, I’ve seen how the best processes, approaches, and technology fails without alignment, clarity, and a clear path to measurable impact. My work focuses on helping enterprises define what AI should do for their business, not just what it can do.

I specialize in building frameworks for responsible, scalable AI adoption that connect strategy, operations, and people. This includes:

Designing AI adoption roadmaps aligned with business goals and governance

Translating technical possibilities into clear, actionable business outcomes

Building cross-functional alignment between leadership, operations, and IT

Coaching teams to develop AI literacy and operational confidence

Heidi 💡 Araya

Linkedin Learning

LinkedIn Learning Instructor for GitHub courses

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Xebia Academy

Microsoft Certified Trainer for AZ-400
GitHub Accredited Trainer for Actions/Advanced Security/Copilot

Xebia Academy Trainer

Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Azure/DevOps courses:
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ900)
- Azure Developer Associate (AZ204)
- Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ400)

Micosoft Certified Trainer

GitHub Trainer for Developers, Copilot, Actions and Advanced Security

GitHub Trainer

Helping our customers anyway we can. Focus on DevOps and empowering teams. GitHub, Azure, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Open Source and helping the community.

DevOps Consultant & Trainer

Global DevOps Bootcamp

Part of the team behind Global DevOps Bootcamp, helping out wherever I can. Mostly focused on back-end infrastructure Azure/Azure DevOps.

Team member Global DevOps Bootcamp

SYNAXION

Team Lead Software engineering
- Architecture
- DevOps & Scrum
- Work Item Management
- Code reviews

BI Consultants coaching and training
- Helping colleagues grow and bring value to the team
- Breaking down hurdles

Software Engineer, full stack:
- Microsoft Azure (VM's, AppServices,  Sql Database, Functions, Blob Storage, KeyVault, Active Directory + Office365)
- Visual Studio (C#.NET, MVC, ASP.NET, WebApi, EntityFramework, .NET Core, SignalR, WinForms, Windows services)
- MS SQL Server 2000-2014 + Azure (SQL, SSIS/Data Tools, Management, Performance Tuning)
- SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 (WebParts, Solutions)
- Delphi 5/7/2010 (Win32, Webservices/ActiveX/SOAP, Windows services)
- Oracle database (SQL + ETL)

Sys admin:
- Microsoft Server (AD / DC / Hyper-V)
- Azure (AD, VM's, Blob Storage, Key Management)
- Office365 (AD, Mail, External applications)
- Microsoft SQL Server (Db, Backups & tuning, Security)

Business Intelligence:
Consultant voor projecten in o.a. het onderwijs, gemeenten (sociale dienst), woning corporaties, klant contact centra (KCC). Begeleiden van projecten op zowel functioneel, technisch als organisatorisch vlak.

Focus points:
- Microsoft Azure
- DevOps
- Kanban / Scrum / Agile
- Interne begeleiding en coaching
- Performance management voor webapplicaties
- Integration Testing (Internal NuGet Store & CI middels TFS en Jenkins )
- Unit + WebTests (Selenium)

Software Engineer / Technical Consultant

P&T Chocolate and Presents BV

Software Engineer on CRM software, creating a new base for the software, based on old cobolt software

Software Engineer

Giving teams the opportunity to grow and deliver value, by bringing down hurdles and empowering engineers. Trainer, Speaker, Consultant.

Focus on DevOps and Supply chain security, primarily with #GitHub. 

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