Summary
Daniel Fears is an Azure Customer Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years’ experience delivering cloud, security and automation solutions across defence and commercial sectors. A University of Bath computer science graduate and ex-MOD Senior Cloud Solution Architect, he specialises in zero trust, cost optimisation, governance and platform automation for complex Azure and containerised environments. He has a proven track record translating critical stakeholder requirements into operationally excellent, auditable designs that accelerate migration and business agility. Notably, he presented “Azure in Defence” at Microsoft Future Decoded 2019, reflecting a blend of technical depth and public-facing thought leadership. Based in Bathford, he brings hands-on engineering experience from junior DevOps to strategic cloud architecture, with a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Computing, A-Level Computing at Bath College
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Bath