Brian Swan is an engineering manager at Microsoft with 11 years in software and product roles, blending deep technical delivery experience with a background in education. He leads teams that design default configuration experiences for enterprise Azure customers and previously built tooling to harvest product marketing feedback across a 300-person org. A former teacher and curriculum designer, he brings rare pedagogical clarity to complex technical problems, turning customer insights into actionable product improvements. His career spans hands-on engineering, program and content management, and developer advocacy—from early AWS support to authoring technical documentation and web developer resources. Comfortable operating at the intersection of people, process, and platform, he is skilled at translating cross-group needs into scalable operational solutions. Based in Woodinville, WA, he pairs a mathematics degree and formal teaching credentials with practical cloud systems experience and an appetite for improving how teams learn and ship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Web Technologies Solutions Certificate, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP), Web Technologies Solutions Certificate, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) at University of Washington
BS, Mathematics, 1989, BS, Mathematics, 1989 at Santa Clara University
MST, Mathematics, 2003, MST, Mathematics, 2003 at University of New Hampshire
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