Summary
Marco Pelegrini is a Principal Software Architect based in Vancouver with over 25 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently shaping the COSMIC platform at Microsoft. He specializes in designing resilient, secure, cloud-native distributed systems and has driven large-scale migrations and high-risk infrastructure projects that saved millions and accelerated timelines. Marco blends hands-on system design (Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, .NET) with developer-experience and compliance tooling to enforce best practices across teams. His background spans enterprise e-commerce (SAP Commerce Cloud) to real-time collaboration services (Microsoft Teams), where he built performant, observable platforms handling massive request volumes. An operator who started his career fixing hardware and running a small IT business, he brings pragmatic engineering, mentorship, and a knack for reducing operational cost through automation and observability.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
[OpenCourseWare] - Distributed Algorithms, Computer Science, [OpenCourseWare] - Distributed Algorithms, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA, Company Management / Executive, MBA, Company Management / Executive at FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
BS on Information Systems, Information Systems, BS on Information Systems, Information Systems at Faculdade Politecnica de Uberlandia / FPU
Project Manager, Project Management Training, Project Manager, Project Management Training at Fundação Vanzolini
English, Portuguese