Summary
Dale Kirby is a Cloud Solution Architect with over eight years focused on cloud, distributed systems, and AI-enabled solutions, currently building enterprise-grade cloud architectures at Microsoft. He brings two decades of IT leadership experience, including a decade as an IT director and five years as an enterprise solutions architect, which grounds his cloud work in pragmatic operational insight. Based in Covington, Louisiana, he combines hands-on engineering with partner-focused solution design to deliver adaptive, scalable cloud platforms. An open-source enthusiast, he blends Microsoft cloud expertise with community-minded tooling and automation practices that accelerate adoption. Notably, his background spans both strategic architecture and day-to-day systems management, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on reliability and delivery.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of New Orleans