Mark Brown
Principal PM Manager - Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Brown is a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft leading outbound product strategy for Azure Cosmos DB with 11+ years in cloud product and developer experience leadership. He blends deep technical fluency—authoring PowerShell and CLI samples, adding Bicep support to high-profile Azure quickstart templates, and driving documentation and lab content—with go-to-market execution that helps Specialists and Cloud Solution Architects sell and deploy distributed NoSQL at scale. Previously he led data-driven transformation and documentation modernization for Azure Networking and has a long track record of shipping developer-focused platforms from Web Apps and Redis to Bing Maps. Mark’s work sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success: he shapes roadmaps, creates friction-free developer journeys, and drives adoption through tangible artifacts (samples, scripts, labs) rather than just slides. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs hands-on contributions to public Azure repos with a history of building tooling and automation for real customer migrations and high-availability systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (38)
bicep10
azure-cosmos-db10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
cosmosdb10
azure-cli10
arm-templates10
powershell10
database-management10
azure10
cloud-computing9
gremlin9
mongodb-database9
virtual-network9
bash9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-docs-powershell-samples
Apr 2019 - May 2022
Azure Powershell code samples, often used in docs.microsoft.com/Azure developer documentation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 15 PRs, 63 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the development of PowerShell scripts for Azure Cosmos DB. The scripts cover a range of functionalities, including account creation, container configuration (unique keys, indexing policies, throughput), and throughput migration. They also implemented scripts for Cassandra, MongoDB, and Gremlin APIs, indicating broad knowledge of Cosmos DB APIs. Additionally, they made changes related to failover priority and IP firewall settings, indicating a DevOps focus on account management.
azureazure-powershell
Azure-Samples/azure-cli-samples
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
Contains Azure CLI scripts samples used for documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:30 commits, 30 PRs, 47 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark's commits primarily involve modifying Azure CLI script samples within the `azure-cli-samples` repository. Their contributions center around improving existing scripts, specifically those related to virtual networks, route tables, and Cosmos DB configurations. They added location variables, fixed route table associations, and updated Cosmos DB script samples for various API types (SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin). Furthermore, the user implemented unique resource naming conventions and serverless configurations.
azure-cli
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