Laura is a software architect passionate about application security and software development best practices on the Microsoft cloud platform. She has been developing software with Microsoft technologies for over a decade and has focused entirely on Microsoft cloud services for the past 5+ years.

In addition to her day job as a software architect who still actively writes code, Laura blogs about technologies related to her work at https://laurakokkarinen.com and regularly speaks at international conferences. Sharing her knowledge comes naturally to her, and Laura has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award annually since 2019.