Daniel Sol
Principal Program Manager - Azure Compute at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Sol is a Principal Product Team Manager at Microsoft leading AI-native developer tooling for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), with 11+ years turning complex cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure into self-serve, production-ready experiences. He specializes in agentic workflows that shrink time-to-first-production from hours to minutes and cut day-2 operational effort by roughly 70%, shifting Kubernetes from something developers operate to an active collaborator. His work spans platform engineering patterns, observability unification, and integrations like GitHub Copilot Application Modernization to accelerate workload migration and adoption. Daniel has repeatedly moved powerful but hard-to-use systems into mainstream use—building services like Azure VM Image Builder and driving cloud-init adoption across Azure Linux VMs. He combines deep operational experience from field roles with product leadership that emphasizes rapid experimentation and intent-based UX over feature bloat. Based in Seattle, he focuses on scalable, safe developer experiences that let platform teams retain control while developers move faster.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bournemouth University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
microsoft10
azure-vm10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
api10
rest10
mhealth10
arm-templates10
command-line10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
rest-api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
danielsollondon/teaminfra
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Infrastructure for teams
Contributions:51 PRs, 87 pushes, 54 branches in 10 months
danielsollondon/azvmimagebuilder
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Azure VM Image Builder
Contributions:193 commits, 8 PRs, 423 pushes in 2 years 1 month
vm-imagemhealthbuilderazure-vmazure
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