Michael Collier
Principal Architect at Centric Consulting
Marysville, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Collier is a Principal Architect with two decades of experience designing and delivering scalable cloud solutions, currently leading architecture practice at Centric Consulting after an extended tenure at Microsoft. He specializes in Azure solution development, developer experience optimization, and translating business strategy into resilient, production-ready platforms. Michael has repeatedly bridged hands-on engineering and technical leadership—mentoring teams, shaping cloud adoption, and driving cross-functional practices across enterprises and consultancies. Based in Marysville, Ohio, he combines deep institutional experience from firms like Microsoft, Neudesic, and BMW Financial Services with a practical focus on developer productivity and operational excellence. An Ohio State Computer Science alumnus, he’s known for making complex distributed systems approachable and maintainable for engineering teams.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSCSE Computer Science and Engineering, BSCSE Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (144)
bicep10
command-line-interface10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
visual-studio10
arm10
serverless10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
editor10
azure10
agile10
logic10
cli10
deploying10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mcollier/code-with-engineering-playbook
Mar 2020 - Apr 2025
This is the playbook for "code-with" customer or partner engagements
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
partnerdockergraphqlplaybook
mcollier/ContainersForWindowsDevs
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 months
containerspresentationwindowswindows-containers
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