Alex Frankel
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Frankel is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience focused on Azure Resource Manager tooling, where he founded and maintains the Bicep language for declarative Azure deployments. He blends product leadership with hands-on engineering—converting ARM templates to Bicep, authoring examples for AKS, Cosmos DB, and VNets, and owning CI/CD automation for Azure Blueprints. Based in Seattle, he pairs an MFA in Interaction Design with a CS undergraduate degree, giving him a rare mix of design sensibility and deep cloud engineering chops. Colleagues rely on him to prioritize platform reliability and developer ergonomics while still shipping concrete code and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
Horace Greeley High SchoolBachelor's Computer Science (Integrated Business and Engineering), Bachelor's Computer Science (Integrated Business and Engineering) at Lehigh UniversityMaster of Fine Arts - MFA Interaction Design (IxD), Master of Fine Arts - MFA Interaction Design (IxD) at School of Visual Arts
Github Skills (25)
azure-devops-server10
json10
bicep10
microsoft-azure10
azure-resource-manager10
automation10
azure-devops10
ci-cd-pipeline10
arm-templates10
resource-manager10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
automations10
documentation8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-blueprints
Apr 2019 - Jul 2022
A library of sample Blueprints that can be easily imported via API or PowerShell
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:53 commits, 15 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on building and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines and related scripts for an Azure-based project. Their contributions include the creation and modification of PowerShell scripts for build and release automation, encompassing tasks like module installation, SPN login, blueprint import, and versioning. The commits show an effort to automate Azure Blueprint assignments, managing the deployment and lifecycle of Azure resources. They also worked on cleanup scripts and made adjustments to configuration files, demonstrating a strong command of Azure DevOps practices.
powershell
Azure/bicep
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:395 reviews, 50 commits, 180 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Bicep project by converting ARM templates to Bicep code, creating and updating tutorial examples, and addressing feedback. They worked on various examples, including AKS, Cosmos DB, and VNet configurations. The user demonstrated skills in translating ARM templates to a more modern syntax and improving documentation.
azurebiceparm-templatesarm-json
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