Michael Lively
SR. AZURE ACE ENGINEER at Microsoft
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMichael Lively is a senior Azure ACE engineer and seasoned technical program leader with over 20 years of telecom and cloud experience, currently driving Azure-focused delivery and customer success at Microsoft. He led the seamless integration of Metaswitch professional services into Microsoft, preserving service continuity for Tier 1 carriers like AT&T and coordinating a 90+ million subscriber voicemail migration that generated significant revenue. Michael blends deep hands-on telecom engineering (SBC, VoLTE, IMS) with program and solution-architecture chops to turn RFPs into multi-million dollar SOWs and to stabilize operations through reorganizations and resource constraints. He also contributes code to high-profile open-source projects such as VS Code—improving Jupyter markdown cell rendering—demonstrating a practical full-stack curiosity beyond pure project management. Based in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, he pairs rigorous customer-facing stewardship with a track record of delivering complex, high-stakes network transformations.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Information Systems, BS, Computer Information Systems at Valdosta State University
Github Skills (12)
vscode-api10
markdown10
notebook10
ide10
typescript10
jupyter-notebook10
javascript10
typescripts10
markdown-it10
vscode10
typescript-types10
react4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 130 reviews, 75 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily revolve around enhancing the rendering and functionality of the Visual Studio Code editor's markdown cells, specifically for Jupyter notebooks. The user implemented features to support displaying and rendering images within markdown cells by tokenizing and utilizing a specialized cell attachment renderer. Their work involved modifying and integrating with existing renderers to accurately display images using a data flow model, and handling multi-cell selections, addressing several bugs along the way.
visual-studio-codeelectronvscodevscode-extensionmicrosoft
Yoyokrazy/ipynb-playground
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 10 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.