Mika Cosden
Azure Principal Solution Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikayla Cosden is an Azure Principal Solution Engineer with eight years of focused experience architecting foundational cloud infrastructure, networking, and security for Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, and Public Service clients. Based in New York, she has risen through senior networking and security roles at Microsoft—culminating in global Black Belt positions—after leadership stints at EY and Accenture. She combines practitioner-level networking expertise with enterprise strategy, helping organizations design secure, scalable cloud fabrics rather than just point solutions. Her background in computer science, AI, and cognitive psychology gives her a rare systems-and-human perspective when solving complex operational and security trade-offs. Colleagues rely on her for translating advanced cloud-native networking patterns into actionable, governance-ready architectures.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Psychology, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (39)
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whiteboard9
sketching9
azure8
cli8
command-line8
windows8
azure-cli8
cmd7
windows-terminal5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/MediaEntertainment
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
The official home repo for Microsoft Media and Entertainment
Contributions:1 review, 63 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
entertainmentmicrosoft
bcosden/bin
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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