I build systems that
manage themselves.
The person behind
the automation.
I'm Mark Ringo — I've been building, breaking, and fixing IT infrastructure since the late 1980s. What started with early networking and systems work evolved through three decades of increasingly complex environments: from retail networks at Pier 1 Imports, to joining Hitachi Consulting as a founding-day Senior Systems Engineer, to running North American infrastructure for Citi's Credit Cards Business Operations as SVP.
Along the way I served as CTO at Triencon Services for seven years — designing hybrid public/private clouds, deploying pervasive encryption across the firm, building multi-node DirectAccess IPv6 VPN infrastructure, and hardening Active Directory for electric grid control networks under NERC CIP requirements. I went on to lead infrastructure architecture at Simmons Bank and AccountabilIT before landing at Steeves & Associates, Canada's first certified Microsoft Cloud Partner.
Today my work lives at the intersection of cloud-native endpoint management, DSC v3, and AI-augmented operations. I build tools that let tens of thousands of Intune-managed endpoints configure, secure, and remediate themselves — and I'm training custom LLMs on the domain knowledge to make that even better.
I hold a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. I live near Alberta Beach, Alberta, where my home lab mirrors the enterprise patterns I deploy professionally — and where my cat Chaos continually stress-tests my exit door sensor automations.
What I bring to
the stack.
Enterprise endpoint management, from silicon to cloud — automated, secured, and built to outlast the next reorg.
Endpoint Management
Cloud-native device management at scale. Intune-first architectures with zero-touch provisioning, compliance policies, and automated remediation across large enterprise and retail fleets.
PowerShell & Automation
Production-grade modules, Proactive Remediations, custom DSC resources, and CI/CD pipelines. If it can be scripted, it should be — and it should run unattended.
Security & Compliance
Application control, conditional access, certificate-based auth, and security baselines that actually ship. From NERC CIP to retail PCI — security at every layer.
AI & LLM Engineering
Fine-tuning domain-specific models, building local inference infrastructure on consumer GPUs, and integrating AI into operational workflows. Not chatbots — real utility.
Cloud & Hybrid Architecture
Azure-first infrastructure design. From hybrid public/private clouds at energy companies to Azure Functions for config delivery — always with cost discipline.
Infrastructure & Home Lab
Unraid servers, Ubiquiti networking, smart home automation, ESP32 embedded projects. The home lab is where enterprise patterns get tested before they ship.
Things I'm working on currently.
Tools and platforms born from real problems in endpoint management.
DscForge
Full-stack PowerShell SPA for building, validating, and deploying DSC v3 configurations. Multi-provider AI assistance, GPO import, ADMX knowledge base, and live package search.
RingoLLM
Domain-specialized LLM fine-tuned on Windows endpoint management data. Custom training pipeline with synthetic Q&A generation, quality filtering, and local GPU inference.
IntuneGovernance
A governance module for managing Intune at enterprise scale. Firewall remediation, fleet analysis, risk scoring, compliance reporting, and automated policy generation.
RINGO Platform
Azure Function-based middleman for DSC v3 configuration delivery. SCEPman cert auth, tiered processing, and Proactive Remediation compliance bridge. Under $7 CAD/month.