Jim Blizzard
DevOps Engineer at microsoft
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJim Blizzard is a DevOps engineer with 11 years focused on advancing enterprise DevOps practices, backed by a long Microsoft tenure spanning senior roles from Developer Evangelist to Senior Cloud Solution Architect. He designs and implements automated build and release pipelines across on-premises and cloud environments, with experience in both enterprise and mobile software delivery. Known for making DevOps approachable ("DevOps is fun"), he blends deep technical execution with consultative strategy, helping organizations adopt repeatable, auditable delivery workflows. Based in Texas, he brings a systems-science perspective from the University of West Florida and decades of industry experience that quietly informs pragmatic, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Systems Science, BS, Systems Science at University of West Florida
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Github Skills (74)
throw10
visual-studio-extension10
visual-studio-for-mac9
visual-studio-mac9
migration9
scripting9
azure8
azure-devops8
azure-pipelines8
microsoft-azure7
windows7
microsoft7
visual-studio6
azure-devops-pipelines6
azure-kubernetes-service6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jimblizzard/tfs-rest-api-experiments
Sep 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
jimblizzard/azure-dev-day-github-devops-lab
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 6 months
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