Kimmo Forss
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKimmo Forss is a Principal Software Engineering Manager and architect based in Helsinki with nine years of experience modernizing enterprise workloads on Azure, most recently leading the team behind the open-source SAP Deployment Automation Framework. He blends hands-on development and customer engineering to design optimized infrastructure, automate complex SAP on Azure deployments, and unblock large-scale enterprise projects. A former Community Director and long-time instructor for Microsoft’s advanced SharePoint programs, he brings deep mentoring and readiness experience to field teams and partners. Kimmo is known for turning intricate business requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions and for evangelizing automation best practices across customer and partner ecosystems. He combines a practical academic grounding from Åbo Akademi with a passion for architecting novel technical approaches to real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science, Master of Science at Åbo AkademiHangö gymnasium
English, Finnish, Swedish
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Github Skills (20)
microsoft10
suse10
sap10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
deployment-automation10
sap-hana9
functional-testing8
terraform8
quality-assurance7
bootstrap6
aws5
command-line-interface5
architecture5
documentation3
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Github contributions (5)
KimForss/sap-automation
Sep 2024 - Jul 2026
This is the repository supporting the SAP deployment automation framework on Azure
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4905 pushes in 1 year 10 months
azuredeployment-automationsap
Azure/sap-automation
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
This is the repository supporting the SAP deployment automation framework on Azure
Contributions:9 releases, 358 reviews, 651 commits in 1 year 2 months
azuredeployment-automationsap
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