Andrew Coates
Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAndrew Coates is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft with over a decade of hands-on experience building and evangelizing cloud and enterprise software. He blends deep technical skills in enterprise architecture, SaaS, and Microsoft technologies with practical leadership gained across engineering, developer relations, and consulting roles. Trained as a civil engineer (ME, UNSW), he brings a systems-thinking mindset to software design and large-scale cloud solutions. His long tenure at Microsoft includes roles from developer evangelist to senior engineering lead, reflecting a rare combination of public-facing advocacy and backend technical ownership. Outside product work he has experience managing teams, mentoring developers, and applying data-driven approaches from his early hydrology and defense engineering background.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at Sydney Boys High SchoolUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (40)
powerbi10
powerapps10
microsoft-graph-api10
microsoft9
azure-logic-apps9
microsoft-graph9
powerautomate9
powerplatform9
vscode7
dotnet7
microsoft-teams6
cli6
csharp6
sdk6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
coatsy/coding-workshop
Apr 2019 - Jul 2023
support materials for coding workshops
Contributions:26 PRs, 39 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 4 months
coatsy/coatsy.github.io
Jan 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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