Diego Casati
Principal Cloud Native Computing Technical Specialist
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDiego Casati is a Principal Cloud Native Computing Technical Specialist and Azure Global Black Belt based in Calgary with over 9 years at Microsoft and nearly two decades in networking, storage, and cloud engineering. He focuses on cloud-native application development using Kubernetes and open source tools, helping shape Azure product direction and supporting complex customer transformations from proof-of-concept to production. His background spans hands-on roles in storage (ScaleIO), private cloud (VxRack/Neutrino), security, and systems integration, giving him a rare blend of field advocacy and platform architecture expertise. Diego frequently bridges engineering and customer success—translating product roadmap decisions into practical guidance for developers and large enterprises. He also contributes to the cloud native community locally, organizing chapters and events, and brings a forensic mindset from earlier security work to troubleshoot high-impact incidents.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (160)
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microsoft-azure10
bpf10
security10
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k8s10
monitoring10
architecture10
azure-container-apps10
kubernetes-networking10
packer10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dcasati/pipelines-cookbook
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
cd-pipelinepipelinevstsdockerci-cd
appdevgbb/Project-Stormbreaker
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:20 PRs, 70 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 2 months
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