build · automate · innovate
Enterprise platforms,
built like they matter.
Power Platform, Azure & AI consulting from Josh Day — Microsoft Senior Consultant and USAF veteran. Secure patterns, telemetry-first delivery, governed ALM.
- years in tech
- 15+years in tech
- apps shipped
- 60+apps shipped
- veteran
- USAFveteran
josh day — day labs llc
services
Strategy, acceleration, or remediation — grounded in secure, observable patterns.
Power Platform architecture & modernization
Governed environment strategy, Dataverse modeling, solution layering, scalable ALM pipelines and compliance alignment.
Azure cloud engineering
Resilient workloads with Functions, App Service, APIM, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, and automated infrastructure pipelines.
Full-stack development
Enterprise React + .NET solutions with typed contracts, component libraries, performance profiling, and secure APIs.
Governance, ALM & DevOps
DLP policy design, managed solution pipelines, quality gates, layered RBAC, and instrumentation via App Insights.
Legacy modernization
Refactoring InfoPath and classic SharePoint forms into modern Dataverse apps — maintainable, auditable, supported.
AI & Copilot enablement
Patterns for Copilot Studio, prompt orchestration, retrieval, responsible AI guardrails, and audit instrumentation.
recent impact
Outcomes from regulated and enterprise environments.
federal law enforcement
Legacy modernization at scale
Migrated 60 legacy InfoPath applications into governed Power Platform solutions — single-handedly — for a federal law-enforcement agency. Also delivered a field identity-verification app agents still use in the field today.
federal · applied ai
AI-drafted investigative documentation
A Copilot Studio agent that turns interview transcripts into standards-compliant draft memoranda — prompt orchestration, retrieval, and responsible-AI guardrails built for a government cloud environment.
day labs · hospitality
Third Street Retreat
Production booking site and owner-managed CMS for a historic Queen Anne Victorian — Next.js on Azure Static Web Apps, Functions API, Cosmos DB, Entra-gated admin. Day Labs' first shipped delivery.
extended portfolio available on request (nda)
about
Fifteen years of shipping — from flight lines to cloud platforms.
USAF veteran and Microsoft Senior Consultant focused on Power Platform and Azure modernization. I apply full-stack patterns, telemetry, and secure ALM to accelerate enterprise outcomes across banking, insurance, DoD, education, manufacturing, and healthcare.
Core emphasis: building resilient, observable solutions; mentoring teams on platform adoption; and establishing repeatable patterns that reduce operational friction.
the road here
- 2003
United States Air Force
Information management, 3rd Communications Squadron — Elmendorf AFB. Honor Guard at Keesler.
- 2004
Deployed — Baghdad, Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom II.
- 2010
The civilian ladder starts
Desktop support at Dell. Helpdesk to Microsoft in twelve years.
- 2013–18
ECM & SharePoint years
Old National Bank, Midtown Athletic Clubs, Gallagher — forms, workflows, and the platforms behind them.
- 2018–22
Cloud architecture at Planet Technologies
Cloud Engineer III → Cloud Solutions Management Architect. 50+ Power Platform apps, App-in-a-Day host.
- 2022
Microsoft — Senior Consultant
Power Platform, Azure, and Copilot for federal civilian customers.
- 2026
Founded Day Labs LLC
Veteran-owned. Cloud solutions, software development, AI & automation, digital products.
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