Frank Boucher
Developer Advocate
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFrank Boucher is a Developer Advocate and Azure solutions expert with 11+ years of experience bridging cloud architecture, .NET development, and community engagement from Montreal. He spent six years at Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Advocate producing and hosting high-impact shows (100 episodes of Open at Microsoft with 362K views) and building internal analytics and automation tools to help product and content teams make data-driven decisions. Frank combines hands-on engineering—building deployment pipelines for ASP.NET projects and contributing backend features to Azure Functions—with strategic product collaboration, mentoring, and partner enablement. Known for translating complex Azure patterns into practical guidance, he’s equally comfortable leading live coding streams and designing scalable cloud solutions that reduce TCO.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Technique Informatique, Technique Informatique at CÉGEP Édouard-MontPetitFormer des formateurs Leadership et potentiel humain, Former des formateurs Leadership et potentiel humain at AfiB.A.C. BAA (tronc commun seulement), B.A.C. BAA (tronc commun seulement) at HEC Montréaln/a U.Q.A.M. cours de perfectionnement anglais en oral., n/a U.Q.A.M. cours de perfectionnement anglais en oral. at UQAM | Université du Québec à MontréalD.E.C Sciences pures et appliquées, D.E.C Sciences pures et appliquées at CÉGEP de St Hyacinthe
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
kudu10
cakephp10
azure-table-storage10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
dotnet-core10
azure10
csharp10
deployment-automation10
visual-studio-code9
asp-net-core9
azure-sql-database9
rest-api8
api-rest8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AzUrlShortener
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
An simple and easy Url Shortener
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 17 reviews, 413 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the URL shortener project. They added a new function, `UrlList`, to retrieve and display a list of shortened URLs. This involved creating a new `ListResponse` class and modifying the `StorageTableHelper` class to interact with Azure Table Storage. Furthermore, they made changes related to authentication and securing the Azure functions.
shortenerserverlesstinyurlstorageurl-shortener
csharpfritz/CoreWiki
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
A simple ASP.NET Core wiki that we are working on during live coding streams
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on setting up and configuring the deployment process for the ASP.NET Core wiki application. Their contributions include creating and modifying `deploy.cmd` and `build.cake` files, incorporating Kudu deployment features, and adjusting the deployment target. They also added and configured necessary tools and dependencies for the deployment pipeline. This indicates a focus on automating the build, test, and deployment processes to Azure.
working-onaspstreamsasp-net-core-mvcasp-net
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