{"id":181,"date":"2015-05-05T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redbaron.azurewebsites.net\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:03:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/?page_id=181","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redbaron.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/InstagramCapture_96f6c84b-875b-4d1b-983b-a086c70000b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-191 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/redbaron.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/InstagramCapture_96f6c84b-875b-4d1b-983b-a086c70000b1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"InstagramCapture_96f6c84b-875b-4d1b-983b-a086c70000b1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/InstagramCapture_96f6c84b-875b-4d1b-983b-a086c70000b1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/InstagramCapture_96f6c84b-875b-4d1b-983b-a086c70000b1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/InstagramCapture_96f6c84b-875b-4d1b-983b-a086c70000b1.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Red Baron of Azure &amp; Entra <\/strong>is my job related blog. It is the result of me realizing that I share the same content with multiple customers and colleagues and trying to keep track that I update everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About me<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0My name is Christer Ljung and I&#8217;m an ex-Microsoft FTE\u00a0 of 22.5 years. I&#8217;ve been working in R&amp;D, MS EMEA and MS Sweden on products like Azure and Entra. Before leaving Microsoft in November 2025, I was a PM on the VerifiedID team. But my IT history dates back to 1985, so I&#8217;ve been around for some time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redbaron.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FokkerDR1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-461 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/redbaron.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FokkerDR1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FokkerDR1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I named this site <strong>redbaronofazure<\/strong> because\u00a0I childishly like vintage aircrafts, like the red Fokker triplane that Manfred von Richthofen flew in WWI.\u00a0These aircrafts stands for a big engineering breakthrough of its time. Another thing that made a big impression on me was seeing Apollo14 splash down i the Pacific Ocean live on TV Februrary 1971. It amazes me still that people built a rocket that could carry men to the moon and back with technology of the 60&#8217;s and that vehicle so was so heavily computerized.<\/p>\n<p>You can find me on Linked in here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christer-ljung-2a2b8233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christer-ljung-2a2b8233<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Baron of Azure &amp; Entra is my job related blog. It is the result of me realizing that I share the same content with multiple customers and colleagues and trying to keep track that I update everyone. About me &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0My name is Christer Ljung and I&#8217;m an ex-Microsoft FTE\u00a0 of 22.5 years. I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7841,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redbaronofazure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}