Casey Watson
Chief Architect, Cloud & AI, State Local Government & Education (SLED)
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolCasey Watson is a seasoned cloud and AI architect with 13 years of experience building scalable, secure Azure solutions for healthcare, SLED, and ISV partners. At Microsoft he designed infrastructure-as-code innovations and reliability tooling that cut critical review cycles from weeks to days and helped unlock billions in potential cloud revenue. He’s the inventor of a relational IaC approach implemented natively in Terraform and has integrated GPT into tooling to auto-generate TFVARS from sketches, showcasing practical AI-enabled infrastructure automation. Casey led development of Mona, a SaaS onboarding accelerator that dramatically reduced time-to-market and continues to see strong community reuse, and has a track record of translating complex enterprise requirements into auditable, maintainable systems. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he balances board-room strategy with hands-on engineering and is known for making the cloud “stupid easy” for partners. Outside work he’s a bilingual lifelong nerd, husband, and father who brings a people-first leadership style to technical transformation.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
2x Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Science, 2x Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Science at Tarrant County CollegeFort Worth Texas, Fort Worth Texas at Southwest High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (53)
microsoft10
low-code10
no-code10
saas10
microsoft-azure10
appsource10
azure-marketplace10
azure10
amazon10
authentication9
fest9
marketplace9
mantle9
auth8
scalable8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/turnstile
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Your SaaS app's friendly automated usher
Contributions:175 commits, 28 PRs, 228 pushes in 9 months
proxyauthenticationsubscriptionssaasauth-proxy
microsoft/mona-saas
May 2021 - Jan 2023
[M]arketplace [On]boarding [A]ccelerator for SaaS 2.0 is live! 🎉 Learn more @ https://github.com/microsoft/mona-saas/discussions/140.
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 431 commits in 1 year 8 months
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