Kenaz Kwa
Product at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKenaz Kwa is a product leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-focused platforms, now based in Portland and currently at Microsoft. He’s led product and UX teams at FOSSA as VP of Product & UX and previously drove product strategy for Puppet’s Relay and other cloud-first initiatives, translating complex operational needs into low-code automation and remediation products. At Microsoft he owned core Azure VM and Fabric Controller features, improving time-to-market, diagnostics, and capacity efficiency for large-scale cloud services. Hands-on with DevOps tooling, he has contributed fixes and scripting improvements to the widely used Azure Quickstart Templates repo, demonstrating practical ARM, PowerShell, and bash experience. Known for bridging deep technical understanding with go-to-market execution, he repeatedly turns early customer discovery into scalable products for enterprise and cloud-native customers. He studied electrical engineering and music at UT Austin, a background that helps him blend analytical rigor with creative problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS BA Electrical Engineering Music, BS BA Electrical Engineering Music at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (14)
code-templates10
azure10
apptemplates10
cpp-templates10
microsoft-azure10
html-template10
devops10
python-templates10
arm-templates10
bash9
powershell9
bicep8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:187 commits, 50 PRs, 169 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kenaz primarily focused on template and script modifications within the repository. Their contributions include fixing and updating existing templates. Specifically, their work encompasses the modification of PowerShell scripts for Windows VM deployments and bash scripts for mesos cluster configuration and other configuration scripts. They have demonstrated familiarity with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
relay-integrations/relay-bolt
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Relay integration with Puppet Bolt.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 9 months
puppet-boltrelayboltpuppet
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