Cory Fowler
Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCory Fowler is a Senior Technical Program Manager based in Redmond with 12 years of technical and program leadership experience at Microsoft, progressing from developer and cloud advocate roles to senior program leadership. He specializes in streamlining content release and localization pipelines—cutting word-count calculation time by 70% and accelerating localization from weeks to days—while briefing executive leadership and scaling processes organization-wide. Cory blends hands-on DevOps skills (authoring Azure CLI automation for App Service deployments and CI integrations) with technical writing and build-pipeline work in high-profile MicrosoftDocs repositories. Comfortable bridging engineering, documentation, and cross-regional stakeholder groups, he also co-created meeting principles to improve inclusivity and productivity in large forums. His background as an independent developer and early cloud advocate gives him a practical product-facing perspective that informs program decisions.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer Analyst Technology, Computer Programmer Analyst Technology at Humber CollegeSilverlight, Silverlight at Object Sharp Consulting
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bash10
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automation10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/dataexplorer-docs
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Azure Data Explorer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:435 commits, 16 PRs, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cory's primary contributions involve modifications to the `.acrolinx-config.edn` file and the `.openpublishing.build.ps1` file. These changes suggest a focus on build configuration, potentially related to documentation or content generation pipelines. The frequent merging of a 'migrate' branch points to ongoing migration efforts within the project. The updates to `.acrolinx-config.edn` specifically deal with allowed file and branch name patterns.
data-explorerazure-data-explorerexplorerazure
Azure-Samples/azure-cli-samples
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contains Azure CLI scripts samples used for documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the creation and modification of shell scripts designed to automate the deployment and configuration of Azure resources, specifically focusing on Azure App Service. Their commits involve setting up various App Service configurations, including deployments from GitHub, integration with Azure Container Registry, and configuring custom domains. The user's work emphasizes automation through the Azure CLI, deploying web apps with various configurations, and integrating with other Azure services.
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