Lyon Till
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLyon Till is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms and automation at scale, currently focused on agentic engineering at Microsoft. He progressed from systems engineering into lead platform and cloud architect roles, bringing deep operational knowledge from Rackspace and large-enterprise cloud practice at Microsoft. Lyon contributes to open-source tooling for Azure deployments—improving AzOps’ automation, Git integration, and resilient CI/CD behaviors—to streamline multi-scope resource deployment. He combines practical DevOps craftsmanship with architecture-level thinking, often tackling reliability and deployment edge-cases that improve developer workflows. Known for bridging platform engineering and cloud solution design, he pairs strong implementation skills with an eye for automation that reduces manual toil.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems at Middlesex University
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Github Skills (21)
azure-devops-server10
git10
github-ci10
cicd10
automation10
azure-devops10
yaml10
powershell10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
bicep9
microsoft-azure9
azure9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AzOps
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
AzOps is a PowerShell module which deploys (Push) ARM Resource Templates & Bicep files at all Azure scope levels and exports (Pull) ARM resource hierarchy.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 52 reviews, 93 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Lyon focused on improving the AzOps module's automation and deployment capabilities. Their contributions included modifying Azure Pipelines configuration files, enhancing environment variable handling within the actions workflow, and refining the Git integration for both GitHub and Azure DevOps platforms. They also addressed deployment-related issues, implemented retry logic for merging pull requests, and made several updates to test infrastructure. These changes aimed to streamline the deployment process and improve the overall efficiency of the AzOps module.
bicep-templatespushexportsscopeazure-devops
ljtill/radius-powershell
Oct 2023 - Jan 2024
[WIP] PowerShell module for Radius
Contributions:118 PRs, 66 pushes, 122 branches in 2 months
awsazurebicepkubernetespowershell
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