Chris Ayers
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolChris Ayers is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with two decades of hands-on experience in cloud, automation, and software development, focused on improving Azure reliability, scalability, and performance. He blends deep SRE and DevOps practice with full-stack development skills—recently contributing to the Azure SaaS Development Kit by modernizing .NET services and adding unit tests. A frequent international speaker and community organizer (DevOps Days Tampa Bay), he translates operational learnings into practical guidance for App Modernization, CI/CD, containers, and AI-enabled platforms. Past roles span enterprise consulting and leadership across migrations, microservices, and observability, reflecting a knack for turning legacy systems into testable, cloud-native architectures. Based in Tampa, he pairs multiple Linux and Microsoft certifications with a habit of surfacing non-obvious reliability risks before they become incidents.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of West Florida
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
net10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
azure10
csharp10
architecture9
dotnet-new9
architectures9
azure-devops8
azure-devops-services8
azure-devops-server8
xunit7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-saas
Feb 2022 - May 2022
The Azure SaaS Development Kit (ASDK) provides a reference architecture, deployable reference implementation and tools to help developers, startups, ISVs and Enterprises deliver their applications as a SaaS service. A platform for platform creators.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 57 commits, 14 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on refactoring and updating the Saas.Admin.Web and Saas.Catalog.Api projects, introducing unit tests and upgrading the projects to .NET 6. They also worked on upgrading .NET in the Saas.Provider.Web project and converting the testing framework to XUnit. In addition, the user appears to have made changes to project files, dependencies, and domain models within the broader context of the SaaS development kit.
deployablesaas-platform-architectureazure-sql-databasedeliverazure-devops
Codebytes/test-env
Apr 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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