Julio Colon is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience and eight years focused on cloud-native development and architecture at Microsoft. He blends deep expertise in software development, automation, testing, and cloud marketplace enablement, helping enterprise partners onboard and monetize SaaS on Azure. Julio has led multidisciplinary teams across DevOps, Kubernetes, IoT and large-scale cloud engagements, architecting solutions that supported multi-year contracts and high-value partners. He contributes to Microsoft’s open-source Marketplace SaaS Accelerator, improving both UI and deployment automation—showing a pragmatic mix of frontend polish and infrastructure know-how. Educated with multiple advanced degrees in software engineering and security and a recent CTO program at Wharton, he pairs technical rigor with strategic leadership. Colocated in Northbridge, MA, he’s actively upskilling toward IoT and ML while continuing to engineer production-grade cloud code.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Chief Technology Officer Program, Chief Technology Officer Program at Wharton Executive Education
Preparatory English Spanish History Mathematics Science Physics Chemistry, Preparatory English Spanish History Mathematics Science Physics Chemistry at Colegio Bautista de Carolina
Bachelor Computer Engineering, Bachelor Computer Engineering at Universidad de Puerto Rico
Master's Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's Degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Brandeis University
A reference example with sample code for developers interested publishing transactable, Software as a-Service offers in the Microsoft commercial marketplace.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 140 reviews, 124 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Julio primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and deployment aspects of the SaaS accelerator. Their commits addressed site title modifications for different pages, indicating frontend modifications. The user also updated the deployment script, adding and updating parameters to streamline the deployment process, demonstrating infrastructure knowledge.
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Julio Colon - Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft