Summary
John Blevins is a seasoned Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering cloud and infrastructure solutions for enterprise and federal customers, currently shaping Azure platform adoption at Microsoft. He combines deep expertise in public and private cloud (Azure, AWS, Azure Stack, VMware), modern identity federation and MFA, and both relational and NoSQL data platforms to build secure, scalable architectures. His background spans mission-critical datacenter operations, virtualization and DR at the CDC, to cross-domain data insights and Azure Government readiness, reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering and strategic delivery. Unusually for an architect at this level, he has strong data science training (MS in Data Science) and practical experience with analytics tools like R, Python, SAS and Power BI, enabling him to bridge infrastructure and data teams effectively. Based in Reston, VA, he is known for creating pragmatic, compliance-aware solutions and for mentoring infrastructure professionals to adopt data-driven practices.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Southern Methodist University