# Rick van den Bosch Rick van den Bosch is a software engineer and cloud/software architect at Microsoft, working as a Cloud & AI Senior Cloud Solution Architect. He has been building software since 1999 and writes and speaks about .NET, Azure, cloud and software architecture, AI-assisted software development, and practical engineering trade-offs. ## Primary pages - Home: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/ - About Rick: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/about/ - Writing archive: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/blog/ - Cloud, Explained series: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/cloud-explained/ - Betatalks video and podcast: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/betatalks/ - Speaking topics and invitations: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/speaker/ ## Machine-readable discovery - Sitemap: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/sitemap.xml - Main RSS feed: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/index.xml - Blog RSS feed: https://www.rickvandenbosch.net/blog/index.xml The archive contains historical articles dating back to 2005. Publication dates indicate their original context; current professional identity is maintained on the home and About pages.