Evan Basalik is a seasoned cloud reliability and support leader with over a decade shaping Azure's IaaS, networking, VMs, and identity services at Microsoft, now scaling customer delivery as Senior Principal Escalation Engineer. He began his career as a chemical engineer doing R&D before pivoting to SQL Server and embracing cloud infrastructure early after seeing what became Azure SQL DB. Evan combines hands-on incident leadership and platform improvement with mentoring and strategic program work, having helped launch Windows on Azure and driven LiveSite and Azure-wide incident processes. Outside of day-to-day support he co-hosted The Azure Podcast, bringing technical storytelling to 15K+ monthly listeners, and balances a voracious reading habit, home projects, and family life in Belmont, NC.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering at Clemson University
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
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