Michael Thai
VP, ERG Partnerships at Ascend Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Thai is a cloud and technology leader based in Austin with over 15 years guiding large enterprises through cloud modernization, DevOps adoption, and platform engineering. As Manager, AI & Data at EY he architects scalable Azure and AWS solutions—spanning Kubernetes, Databricks, Data Factory, and Azure Purview—while leading distributed teams to deliver self-service provisioning and CI/CD-driven microservice deployments. Former roles at Accenture show deep release and configuration management experience running operations for 150+ developers across 12+ environments and driving measurable build and release improvements. He pairs hands-on infrastructure automation and FinOps discipline with a knack for translating complex technical requirements into business-aligned roadmaps and resilient runbooks. Known for mentoring high-performing teams and leading incident response in mission-critical systems, he also brings practical systems engineering roots from early C++ development and academic training in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
teochew, Spanish
Github Skills (78)
buster9
galaxy9
ubuntu9
azure-pipelines9
supervisord9
packer-plugin9
debian8
centos8
azure-devops8
ansible-role8
vagrantfile8
invoke8
boilerplate8
server8
redhat8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mieel/snippets
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:90 commits, 89 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
mieel/ansible-yaml-doc
May 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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