Michael W is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft with over 12 years of hands-on experience across development, SRE, product, and cloud engineering roles. He specializes in Azure-driven digital transformation, co-engineering customer solutions and guiding distributed teams to production-grade reliability and cost optimization. Michael has built SRE practices from scratch, defined SLOs, reduced cloud spend by 30%, and led live-site operations for SaaS platforms, bringing rare end-to-end perspective from code to C-suite. A passionate community builder and educator, he co-founded the Global Azure Bootcamp (reaching 13,000+ attendees across 79 countries) and was an 11‑year Azure MVP before joining Microsoft. He combines technical depth in distributed systems and DevOps with a talent for mentoring and orchestrating cross-functional teams. Based in Burlington, KY, he enjoys translating complex cloud challenges into pragmatic, teachable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Eastern Kentucky University
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Michael W - Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft