Elan Shudnow
Principal Solution Engineer, Cloud & AI Infrastructure at Microsoft
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolElan Shudnow is a Principal Solution Engineer specializing in Cloud & AI Infrastructure at Microsoft with over 19 years in IT and a decade focused on Azure architecture and adoption. He designs pragmatic, scalable solutions across compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, BCDR, serverless, identity, and security while automating at scale with PowerShell, Terraform, Packer, and ARM/Bicep. A former 6x Microsoft MVP, Elan blends customer-facing solution design with community teaching—publishing a technical blog and maintaining Azure-focused GitHub repositories that codify repeatable patterns. Based in Chicago, he has progressed through senior Azure roles at Microsoft and CDW, proving adept at translating complex requirements into operational runbooks and IaC. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic disaster-recovery strategies and for making Kubernetes and hybrid-cloud designs reliably producible. He’s known for pairing deep technical fluency with a passion for mentorship and open knowledge sharing.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Network and Communications Management Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Network and Communications Management Information Technology at DeVry University
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ElanShudnow/AzureCode
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 81 pushes in 8 months
ElanShudnow/CloudFamily
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 pushes in 3 months
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