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 (24)
sap-hana10
cloud-foundry10
monitor10
microsoft10
sap-cap10
suse10
openui510
sap10
microsoft-azure10
automation10
azure10
automation-framework10
deployment-automation10
hosts9
architecture7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/SAP-on-Azure-Scripts-and-Utilities
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:141 commits, 11 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 9 months
streamlinedeploymenthostscustomerscloud
KimForss/sap-automation
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
This is the repository supporting the SAP deployment automation framework on Azure
Contributions:1 PR, 2924 pushes, 61 branches in 7 months
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