Michael Stark
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Stark is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with over two decades at Microsoft and eight years in senior engineering leadership roles, currently leading the Azure Lab Services product engineering team from Bellevue. He blends deep hands-on expertise in C#, REST API design, and Microsoft Azure with a proven track record of shipping reliable platform services across Windows, Payments, and DevTestLab domains. Michael contributes to prominent open-source projects such as ApplicationInsights-dotnet, where he improved telemetry fidelity and metrics aggregation, and has automated complex Azure DevTestLab workflows and Docker setups. Known for pragmatic refactors and attention to cloning/deep-copy correctness in telemetry objects, he pairs systems-level thinking with strong operational and DevOps experience. A University of Washington Computer Science graduate, he is comfortable moving between code, automation scripts, and large-scale product leadership.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (24)
docker10
net10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
asp-net10
automation10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
azure10
automations10
csharp10
telemetry10
data-structure9
cicd9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-devtestlab
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
Azure DevTestLab artifacts, scripts and samples
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:25 commits, 25 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions centered on automating processes within the Azure DevTestLab environment. They updated PowerShell scripts to utilize Az Cmdlets, which involved changes to parameter validation, subscription switching, and resource management. The user also updated an artifact for Docker configuration, including managing the installation and configuration of Docker and Kitematic. Additionally, they addressed issues related to Docker and React build processes, and worked on resolving an issue related to the react-dev-utils package.
artifactsazure
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet
Apr 2018 - May 2018
ApplicationInsights-dotnet
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the `DependencyTelemetry` class within the `ApplicationInsights-dotnet` repository. Their contributions centered around adding and modifying operation details, including refactoring and implementing data structures for managing this information. They also addressed issues with cloning and deep copying of telemetry objects. Furthermore, the user contributed to testing and ensuring the proper functionality of metrics aggregation.
dotnetapplication-insightsapplicationinsightsloggingobservability
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