Microsoft 365 | Since October 2026
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Recognised by Microsoft for contributions to the technology community.
Dmytro Slotvinskyi
(opens in a new tab)The program
What the Microsoft MVP award is.
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program is an award Microsoft gives to independent technology community leaders who share their expertise with others — through content, events, mentoring, open source and helping people solve real problems.
It is not an employment role and not a certification. MVPs are not Microsoft employees, and the award is not earned by passing an exam; it recognises community contribution.
First person
My MVP Journey
My path here started with hands-on engineering. Building and operating cloud platforms, automating infrastructure and bringing AI workloads into production taught me that the most useful lessons rarely fit in documentation — they come from doing the work.
Over time I found that sharing those lessons mattered just as much. Teaching, mentoring and leading workshops became a natural extension of my engineering practice, and community became the place where that knowledge could travel further.
Being recognised as a Microsoft MVP is, for me, an encouragement to keep going: to keep learning in public, keep helping others and keep connecting engineering with the people who make it better.
Award details
At a glance.
- Award
- Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
- Category
- Microsoft 365
- First awarded
- October 1, 2026
- Country
- Ukraine
What it means to me
Three commitments.
Share Knowledge
Turning real engineering experience into talks, workshops, articles and examples others can learn from and reuse.
Connect Engineering & Community
Bridging day-to-day cloud and AI work with the communities where practitioners exchange ideas and lessons learned.
Help Others Grow
Mentoring engineers, answering questions and creating space for people to take their next step with confidence.
Evidence
Verify my recognition.
First awarded on October 1, 2026 in the Microsoft 365 category. The official Microsoft MVP profile is the authoritative source.
Let's build — and share — something good.
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