Matthew Fortunka
Senior Software Engineer at Welsh Azure User Group
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Fortunka is a Senior Software Engineer and Azure-focused architect with nine years in engineering roles and a long history of building scalable .NET backend systems. Now at Microsoft in the UK, he blends hands-on development with cloud architecture, contributing to high-impact open-source tooling such as the Azure API Management DevOps Resource Kit where he improved diagnostics, KeyVault integration and template parameterization. Previously he led architecture efforts at major UK insurers and co-founded the Welsh Azure User Group, reflecting both enterprise-scale delivery and community leadership. Comfortable switching between DevOps, backend engineering and solution architecture, he’s known for pragmatic fixes that improve template structure and automation reliability. Trained originally as a chemical engineer, he brings a systems-thinking mindset to complex cloud problems and quietly prefers solving infra puzzles over flashy features.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical Engineering at The University of Birmingham
Github Skills (13)
azure-api-management10
api10
backend10
csharp10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
arm-templates10
vault10
azure-keyvault10
dotnet-core10
devops9
powershell6
yaml6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-api-management-devops-resource-kit
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Azure API Management DevOps Resource Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the Azure API Management DevOps Resource Kit, implementing features related to API diagnostics, KeyVault integration and parameterizing backend properties. They added support for service diagnostics at the all API level, modifying template extractors, and added parameterization of properties. The user also worked on refining the template structure, and implemented fixes to resolve identified issues, such as the loading of parameters from the command line.
apidevopsazure-api-managementapi-managementazure-api
fortunkam/QuizzR
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 review, 93 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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