Jay Witt
Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Witt is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft with 18+ years of hands-on experience designing and migrating enterprise infrastructure and applications to the cloud. He combines deep Windows and Microsoft ecosystem expertise—Active Directory, Exchange, System Center, SharePoint, Azure—with practical datacenter and storage knowledge (VMware, NetApp, EMC) to deliver resilient, supportable solutions. Jay has led large datacenter migrations and platform transformations, translating stakeholder needs into architecture through collaborative design sessions and proof-of-concept work. As a former director and manager, he pairs technical breadth with people leadership, often stepping in as a hands-on escalator to resolve complex issues. Known for quickly mastering new technologies, he focuses on simplifying support and increasing business agility through pragmatic, requirement-driven designs. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he uniquely blends long-term operational experience with current cloud-native practice.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Concordia University Chicago
Github Skills (10)
azure10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
architecture8
documentation6
rbac1
powershell1
github-desktop1
electron1
desktop1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JayWitt/MyFirst
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
JayWitt/AzureOperationGuide
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:44 commits, 126 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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