Helping developers level up with agentic engineering & AI.

I’m Andrew Connell — a developer, writer, and teacher based in St. Johns, Florida, and a Principal Software Engineer at AvePoint. Microsoft has recognized me with an MVP Award every year since 2005 — 22 years and counting.

These days my focus is agentic engineering and building with AI, though three decades in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem — from the early .NET and SharePoint days through today’s Copilot and the SharePoint Framework — still shape how I think about it. I love learning something new and then figuring out the clearest way to teach it.

I started blogging in 2003 as a personal tech journal; it grew into a resource the community relies on. Along the way I co-authored books, wrote 30+ Microsoft Learn modules, published nearly 20 Pluralsight courses, and co-hosted the Microsoft Cloud Show podcast, publishing 450 episodes from 2013 through 2022. I founded the developer-training company Voitanos, and before that co-founded the classroom-training company Critical Path Training.

I’ve been fortunate to share what I’ve learned on the biggest stages in the industry — Microsoft Build, Ignite, TechEd, TechCon 365, the Microsoft 365 Community Conference, the European Collaboration Summit (ECS) the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC), and dozens more across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. There’s nothing like a room full of people learning something new.

This site is where I share the writing, projects, and talks I care about most. Thanks for stopping by.