Charles Zipp
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Zipp is a Principal Software Engineer based in Dallas with a decade of experience architecting cloud-native systems and developer experience at scale. At Microsoft he focuses on Cloud for Industry (Energy & Carbon) and previously drove Commercial Software Engineering initiatives that scaled an Azure Pipelines Terraform extension to 40,000+ daily deployments. He has a strong track record of modernizing legacy systems into event-driven, scalable platforms—leading efforts that introduced CQRS/Event Sourcing, service pooling, and CI/CD best practices across enterprise products. Prior roles at Wolters Kluwer, Match.com, and Phytel show deep expertise in distributed services, Azure Service Fabric/Orleans, and automation that shortened deployment cycles from weeks to days. He blends hands-on implementation with organizational impact—growing internal playbook contributors from a dozen to over 140 and institutionalizing Developer Experience as a core engineering value. Outside of feature delivery, he’s known for creating practical onboarding formats like “hack-style handoffs” that accelerate knowledge transfer in complex engagements.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Computer Information Systems at Tarleton State University
Github Skills (110)
microsoft-azure10
azure-pipelines10
azure10
agile10
drift10
product-management10
docker10
microsoft10
agile-development10
graphql10
dotnet9
pipeline9
cloud-computing9
azure-pipelines-task9
concurrency9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
charleszipp/abode
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Abode is a fake project using Azure Digital Twins primarily for learning the technology.
Contributions:40 reviews, 9 PRs, 31 pushes in 9 months
azure-functionsdigital-twinstwinsazureazure-digital-twins
charleszipp/azure-pipelines-tasks-terraform
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Azure DevOps Pipeline Tasks for Terraform
Contributions:50 releases, 65 reviews, 44 commits in 1 year 3 months
azure-pipelinespipelinedevopspipeline-tasksdevops-pipeline
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