António Azevedo
Staff Technical Writer at NOVA IMS Information Management School
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolAntónio Azevedo is a staff technical writer and former Senior Technical Writer at Microsoft with nine years of experience bridging developer engineering, IoT, Edge AI and security-focused content. Based in Lisbon, he combines hands-on engineering roots—contributing code to the Azure C# IoT SDK and enabling UWP, X509 and AMQP/MQTT-over-WebSockets—with a knack for translating complex architectures into learnable guidance on Microsoft Learn. He leads large technical communities (an internal IoT community of 2,000+ members) and teaches postgraduate NoSQL courses at NOVA IMS, blending academic rigor with practical field insights. António now crafts security best practices for developers and AI tooling at Snyk, applying an operator’s mindset to documentation and developer experience. Known for influencing cross-functional teams without formal authority, he pairs technical leadership with active inclusion work and community events. Off-hours he channels creativity as a drummer, a background that surfaces in his collaborative, performance-oriented approach to team dynamics and content design.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Sound Technician, Audio, Sound Technician, Audio at ETICBachelor of Engineering - BE, Telecommunications and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Telecommunications and Computer Engineering at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de LisboaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering - Multimedia Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering - Multimedia Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
uwp10
net10
dotnet10
azure-iothub10
asp-net10
iot10
file-upload10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
mqttnet9
mqtt9
websocket8
amqp8
azure-timeseries-insights6
azure-monitoring6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-csharp
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 13 branches in 7 months
Contributions summary:António primarily contributed to the client-side application, enhancing the device explorer with file upload functionality, including the integration of X509 support and UWP compatibility. The user also made several changes to the device client, ensuring the UWP file upload feature worked and included exception handling for scenarios where the twin feature wasn't available and also enabling AMQP and MQTT over Websockets for .NetStandard1_3. This included modifications across several files to accommodate the new features and protocols.
dotnetazure-iotsdkcsharpmicrosoft-azure
sergaz-msft/azure-iot-sdk-csharp
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 26 branches, 1 comment in 11 months
dotnetazure-iotsdkcsharpmicrosoft-azure
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