Colin Dembovsky
Director Of Field Services, GitHub Copilot
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Dembovsky is a seasoned DevOps and developer productivity leader with 12+ years of experience helping enterprises modernize tooling and workflows, now directing Field Services for GitHub Copilot. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to high-profile repos like microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks—with strategic field engagement to drive DevSecOps adoption at scale. A former cloud and DevOps practice lead and longtime solution engineer, he pairs deep technical fluency with strong communication and culture-building skills. Colin regularly speaks at tech conferences and blogs about developer productivity, bringing practical insights from both consulting and product delivery. Based in Spring, Texas, he’s also known for eclectic interests—chef, musician and 3D printer hobbyist—that inform a creative, pragmatic approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Rhodes University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
docker10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
azure-pipelines10
azure10
automations10
yaml9
powershell9
azure-resource-manager6
aurelia6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Colin's contributions primarily centered on automating and improving the Azure Pipelines tasks within the repository. They introduced and refined the `SetParametersFile` functionality, making enhancements to the AzureRmWebAppDeployment task. Furthermore, the user added and modified testing configurations, specifically around the Kubernetes manifest tasks to support backward compatibility and new Helm3 functionalities. This user was also responsible for adding a space before an argument, which, although small, improved the readability of the code and the build process.
azure-pipelines
nwcadence/java-dev-vsts
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Java Hands on Labs walk through Java DevOps using the Microsoft Stack – VSTS, Team Explorer Everywhere, cross-platform build agent and Application Insights. The labs work from a VHD that is preconfigured with all the software you need to walk through the labs.
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 1 month
build-agentdevopsjavateam-explorervhd
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