Rob Bos

Netherlands Netherlands

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless or training environments. Additionally, Rob focuses on the management of production environments, including dashboarding, usage statistics for product owners and stakeholders, but also as part of the feedback loop to the developers. A lot of focus goes to GitHub and GitHub Actions, improving the security of applications and DevOps pipelines. Rob is a Trainer (Azure + GitHub), a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. He regularly shares his knowledge through blogs, videos, and speaking at international conferences.

Community Contributions

Getting started with AI by using GitHub Models

Speaking about GitHub Models. Description: Often people do not know how to get started with AI, especially since a lot of the options mean spinning up some resources on Azure or another service, which means there are costs associated with it. GitHub Models gets you started with Generative AI for Free! Learn where to start and how to progress to more advanced scenarios. Especially suited of people who want to make sense of what the heck this AI thing is! Come learn from real examples of working with text or converting documents into text so you can work with large language models to extract information out of them.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 10-07-2025

Strengthening Code Security with GitHub Advanced Security, Agents, and AutoFix

This session explores GitHub Advanced Security’s comprehensive features — including secret scanning, dependency reviews, and code scanning — and how it integrates with enterprise environments to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable development. Additionally, we'll showcase how Copilot Agents and the new AutoFix functionality can automatically detect and remediate security vulnerabilities, reducing manual effort and accelerating secure coding practices. Learn how these tools not only strengthen your security posture but also streamline your development workflow by addressing issues proactively and efficiently.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 09-25-2025

Supercharge GitHub Copilot with Azure MCP!

Session description: Learn how to get even more value from GitHub Copilot by including the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) features in VS Code! MCP is the new rage on Generative AI land and opens the possibility to bring in more context into your chat conversations. And we all know with GitHub Copilot: context is key! MCP gives more information about your cloud architecture so that you can get better suggestions from Copilot.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 04-22-2025