Iain Foulds
Senior Technical Writer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIain Foulds is a Senior Technical Writer and former systems engineer with 15 years’ experience designing, documenting, and implementing cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he authors practical cloud learning materials—most notably "Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches"—and teaches Azure through O’Reilly, blending hands-on engineering with clear, consumable guidance. At Google he crafts cross-cutting Google Cloud architecture and GKE/Anthos solutions, and previously at Microsoft he produced deep Azure content and worked directly with PMs and support teams to ship samples and tooling. His GitHub contributions show he still codes and operates CI/CD, deploying Web Apps, VMs, and Kubernetes clusters to support book samples, revealing a rare mix of authoring, training, and full-stack/DevOps skills.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AS Network Computing, AS Network Computing at Gateshead College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
python10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
cosmosdb10
azure-cli10
aac10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
githubaction-workflow10
scripting9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fouldsy/azure-mol-samples
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
Supporting resources for "Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches" (Manning Publications)
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:78 commits, 4 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Iain primarily contributed to the creation and deployment of Azure cloud resources, focusing on the integration of various Azure services, including Storage Queues, Storage Tables, Cosmos DB, and Web Apps. Their work demonstrates an understanding of cloud infrastructure by adding samples using Python, integrating these services into the overall project, and making updates to improve sleep times within the script. The user also added a sample for Azure Web Apps and Cosmos DB, demonstrating full-stack knowledge.
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fouldsy/azure-mol-samples-2nd-ed
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
Supporting resources for "Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches - 2nd edition" (Manning Publications)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Iain contributed to various aspects of the Azure-focused project, including both front-end and back-end technologies. They updated files for Azure CLI and Bot Framework implementations. In addition, the user implemented and modified code related to deployment configurations and infrastructure setup across several chapters within the learning materials. Finally, the user demonstrated skills in managing CI/CD pipelines and automating deployment processes for Web Apps, VMs, and Kubernetes clusters.
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