Keith Babinec
Principal Resilience Architect at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Babinec is a Principal Resilience Architect at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building reliable, secure cloud services and leading SRE and engineering teams. He blends hands-on software and systems engineering—spanning .NET, PowerShell, Azure, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code—with operational leadership for live-site reliability, incident response, and security/compliance. His background includes leading Microsoft Whiteboard backend modernization, designing SLO-driven observability, and open-sourcing tooling like Az.Tools.Migration to simplify cloud migrations. Keith has repeatedly rebuilt and automated legacy platforms (from on-prem build systems to modern Azure services) and has experience founding and shipping a customer-facing startup, giving him product-minded engineering instincts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who cares about career growth and process clarity while driving cross-team alignment during reorganizations and high-stakes transitions. Based in Redmond, he combines deep Windows/enterprise ops roots with modern cloud resilience practices to keep large-scale services healthy and secure.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Management, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Management at Northwest University
Github Skills (46)
azurerm10
backup10
powershell-module10
migrate10
windows9
storage9
cloud-storage9
agent9
backblaze9
azure9
powershell9
arm9
active8
repos8
protected8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
keithbabinec/PowerShellModuleStarterKit
Aug 2017 - Jun 2020
A starter kit for new PowerShell script modules including unit tests.
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 10 months
unit-testspowershellpowershell-scriptunit
keithbabinec/AzurePowerShellUtilityFunctions
Oct 2018 - May 2021
A collection of Azure related PowerShell utility functions
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
utility-functionspowershellfsharppowershell-moduleazure
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