Kory Thacher
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKory Thacher is a seasoned cloud solution architect with a decade of experience designing and troubleshooting enterprise Microsoft cloud and automation solutions from Seattle. At Microsoft he progressed from Premier Field Engineer to Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, delivering hundreds of workshops, training thousands of customers, and directly contributing to multimillion-dollar revenue through technical education and services. He excels at translating complex on-prem systems (Windows Server, SharePoint, Active Directory) into cloud-ready architectures and automation with PowerShell, Azure DevOps, and scripting—skills honed by hands-on embedded and protocol work early in his career. Known for customer-facing clarity and mentorship, Kory has repeatedly earned top customer satisfaction scores and internal recognition for going beyond expectations during critical incidents. He brings a blend of technical depth, training pedigree, and practical product-focused engineering that helps organizations adopt cloud practices reliably.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, General Education + Information Technology, 4.2, High School, General Education + Information Technology, 4.2 at Harwich High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.31, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.31 at Tufts University
English
Github Skills (12)
jekyll7
jekyll-theme7
liquid6
windows-live5
static-site5
dotnet4
winforms4
github-pages4
github3
git3
unity3d3
windows2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Sambardo/DemoRepo
Feb 2021 - Apr 2024
Repo for demoing git basics.
Contributions:246 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
git-gui
Sambardo/PowerShellPromptHelper
Sep 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 4 years 3 months
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