Eric Allred is a seasoned technology leader and program manager with a multi-decade track record of transforming large-scale IT, security, and engineering operations into cloud-native, automated, and data-driven organizations. He led large global teams and multi-million dollar budgets at Microsoft—driving major migrations to Azure, re-architecting services for scale and cost savings, and improving partner bug workflows and MTTR—and most recently managed serverless and Kubernetes-focused programs as a Technical Program Manager in Google Cloud. Known for bridging engineering and product teams, he delivers measurable outcomes: significant cost reductions, faster fix times, and increased service adoption across millions of customers. Eric’s background spans hands-on security and red-team work through senior service engineering and operations leadership, bringing a practical perspective to resilience and risk. Now focused on philanthropy, he brings strategic program leadership and deep cloud/IT expertise to nonprofit initiatives in Edmonds, Washington. A pragmatic systems thinker, he combines an engineer’s attention to automation with a leader’s ability to align cross-division stakeholders around clear metrics.
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