Alan Sohn
Sr. Technical Advisor, CSS Azure IaaS Compute-Storage at Microsoft
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Sohn is a seasoned Azure support and program management professional with over three decades at Microsoft and 11 years focused on Azure IaaS compute and storage. As a Senior Technical Advisor he mentors support engineers and drives resolution of complex Windows, Linux, VM, and storage issues while bridging technical troubleshooting with partner-facing program delivery. He has led cross-organizational efforts improving bug management, build distribution, and partner QA, demonstrating a rare combination of deep hands-on debugging and program-level coordination. His open-source contributions to the widely used Azure Quickstart Templates show a practical devotion to automation and reliability—adding error handling and retry logic to storage file transfer scripts. Based in Snoqualmie, Washington, he combines a teacher’s mindset with technical rigor, often turning operational pain points into documented, repeatable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (19)
scripting10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
automation10
script10
sh10
azure10
automations10
shell10
arm8
azure-cli7
dockers4
docker4
apptemplates3
cpp-templates3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alan focused on creating and updating scripts for downloading and uploading files to Azure storage, utilizing the `blobxfer` utility. Their work involved initial script creation, adding error handling, and implementing retry logic to improve the reliability of file transfers. Furthermore, the user corrected response codes to ensure proper execution flow, demonstrating a focus on automation and operational efficiency within the Azure environment.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
AlanSt/azure-quickstart-templates
May 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 147 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years
azure
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