About SynEdgy

SynEdgy helps IT and infrastructure teams modernise automation into governed capabilities designed to be owned, operated, and continuously improved by the team.

Not just code. An operating capability designed for your team to own and grow.

We work with organisations that already depend on automation and want it to become safer to change, easier to support, and better connected to business priorities without replacing the expertise already inside the team.

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Why SynEdgy exists

Automation can remove toil and create capacity. It can also create a growing estate of scripts, dependencies, exceptions, and specialist knowledge that becomes difficult to change.

SynEdgy exists to help teams move beyond that trap without creating another dependency.

Our work follows one descriptive, unbranded method:

1. Find the constraint: identify what most limits service value, delivery flow, or the organisation’s capacity to change.
2. Prove the path: use bounded working increments and co-development to test assumptions and shorten feedback loops.
3. Engineer for operation: include maintainability, proportionate governance, security, support, observability, recovery, and the cost to operate and support.
4. Transfer and grow ownership: make decisions visible, teach through the work, and share responsibility from the beginning.

How we work

SynEdgy combines:

• Services focused on customer outcomes
• Expertise demonstrated through public engineering and technical depth
• Training built around practical application
• Tools that turn experience into reusable assets
• Community organisation, sponsorship, open source, and shared learning

Co-development is central to much of our work. We build alongside customer teams, share decisions and practices, and design the result so the team can operate, support, and improve it rather than receiving another black box.

An operating capability is more than code: it includes a controlled delivery path, proportionate governance, observable failure and recovery, shared support knowledge, and a team able to improve it.

Gael Colas

Gael Colas founded SynEdgy after working across IT analysis, infrastructure engineering, configuration management, and site reliability. He now helps teams improve automation, PowerShell, Desired State Configuration, platform engineering, and DevOps for ITOps.

His public work includes open-source projects such as Sampler, Datum, DscWorkshop, the Chocolatey PowerShell module, and SynEdgy PowerShell modules. He also teaches, speaks at conferences, and organises community events.

Gael is a Microsoft MVP. This recognition belongs to Gael personally and is not a SynEdgy company credential.

Find Gael on Sessionize, LinkedIn, and GitHub.

Geoffroy Dubreuil

Geoffroy Dubreuil leads SynEdgy’s event operations and communications. He coordinates sponsorship, logistics, community engagement, and the practical delivery behind PowerShell Conference Europe and related initiatives.

Find Geoffroy on LinkedIn.

Community and knowledge

SynEdgy organises PowerShell Conference Europe with the help of community volunteers and organises the free online PSConfEU MiniCon format.

We sponsor PowerShell user groups through the SynEdgy Meetup network, support selected technical events, publish open-source tools, and share technical sessions publicly.

Community work helps us learn with practitioners, test ideas, document useful approaches, and improve the engineering we bring to customer engagements.

Where we operate

SynEdgy is the shared trading name used by SynEdgy SARL, SynEdgy SAS, and SynEdgy Limited.

SynEdgy SARL owns this website and is the parent company of SynEdgy SAS. SynEdgy SAS normally contracts for work in the European Union, while SynEdgy Limited normally contracts for work in the United Kingdom. SynEdgy SARL normally contracts for work elsewhere. The applicable contracting entity is identified in each proposal and contract.