Colin Cole
Principal SRE Engineering Manager, Azure Reliability at Microsoft
Glenview, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolColin Cole is a seasoned Microsoft engineering leader with 11+ years in cloud and a 30+-year technology career focused on Azure reliability, modern cloud architectures, and large-scale customer transformation. As Principal SRE Engineering Manager he now leads cross-border teams applying generative AI and risk assessment techniques to prevent outages and harden Azure services. Previously he directed Azure FastTrack engineering across the Americas, helping enterprise customers deploy OpenAI, AKS, App Services and other PaaS at scale while feeding operational learnings back into product. Colin combines hands-on modernization experience—moving large estates from VMs to containers—with deep industry consulting roots and a track record of building community tooling. Based in Glenview, Illinois, he pairs technical breadth (from DevOps to identity and networking) with a knack for converting customer guidance into platform improvements.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
AA Economics Religion, AA Economics Religion at Bryn Athyn College of the New ChurchMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at DePaul UniversityLaunching New Ventures, Launching New Ventures at Harvard Business School Executive EducationBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (25)
bicep10
architecture10
arm-templates10
arm10
azure10
documentation10
microsoft9
migration9
vms9
storage7
resource-manager7
powershell7
iaas5
zone4
azure-resource-manager4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
colincole/MDPP
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 months
colincole/classic-iaas-resourcemanager-migration
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 commit, 15 pushes in 1 day
vmspowershellresource-managerpowershell-scriptsazure-resource-manager
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