Josh Lane
Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Norcross, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Lane is a principal software engineering lead at Microsoft with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering AI and custom cloud solutions on Azure. He leads a small cross-functional team in Industry Solutions Engineering, owning envisioning, architecture, project plans, user stories and code reviews while coordinating across TPMs, data scientists and other Microsoft groups. Comfortable switching between strategy and implementation, he mentors engineers to take on leadership responsibilities and routinely ships production-grade systems. His background spans consulting and principal architect roles across .NET, Node.js, high-scale web architectures, and cloud migrations for diverse verticals from finance to media. Based in Norcross, GA, he blends deep practical engineering (he still authors and reviews PRs) with customer-facing solutioning, making him equally effective in boardroom conversations and pull-request debates. A longtime architect and occasional instructor, he brings uncommon breadth—architecture, implementation, and team development—to complex enterprise software initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Stackoverflow
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38answers
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Github Skills (106)
cosmos10
terraform10
cosmosdb10
webjobs10
azure-cosmos-db10
api10
sdk10
azure10
agile10
partitioning10
azure-app-service10
azure-container-instances10
dotnet9
sql9
specification9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jplane/serverless-orleans
May 2020 - Oct 2020
A demonstration of local development and debugging + serverless Azure deployment of a Dockerized Orleans application.
Contributions:59 commits, 19 PRs, 29 pushes in 5 months
local-developmentserverlessactor-modeldockerizedazure-functions
jplane/atlantis-on-aci
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
How to run Atlantis (https://www.runatlantis.io) on Azure Container Instances
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years
atlantisinstancescontainer-instancesazure-container-instancesazure-container
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