Chris Nakagaki
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Nakagaki is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and automating large-scale VMware and Windows infrastructures, now leading engineering at Microsoft. He blends deep infrastructure expertise—vSphere, Horizon, SAN, Cisco, AD, Exchange—with strong automation skills in PowerShell and PowerCLI to drive scalable, highly automated datacenter operations. Chris has a proven track record mentoring teams and influencing product and strategy from an Office of the CTO role to technical leadership in high-scale environments (400+ ESX hosts, 10,000+ VMs). A longtime blogger on VMware and PowerShell problem-solving, he translates complex operational challenges into repeatable automation and clear technical documentation. Based in Atlanta, he’s known for growing talent from within organizations and for pragmatic innovation that balances immediate reliability with multi-year strategic planning.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (66)
hyper-v10
windows10
microsoft-azure10
powercli10
netcore10
avs10
linux10
powershell10
azure10
shell10
macos10
microsoft10
command-line10
powershell-module9
cli9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Zsoldier/vCheck-vSphere
Mar 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 years 2 months
Zsoldier/azure-docs
Nov 2020 - May 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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