Mike Budzynski
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Budzynski is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft who has spent eight years shaping Azure's developer and analytics tooling, currently focused on Azure API Management. He blends product strategy with hands-on engineering experience from prior roles on Azure Log Analytics and Resource Graph, enabling him to translate complex cloud infrastructure needs into deployable developer experiences. Mike has a strong automation and DevOps streak—his contributions to the widely used Azure API Management developer portal improved deployment and configuration scripting for cross-parameter environments. An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded an award-winning SaaS for news anomaly detection and earlier led a 70+ student software house, demonstrating both technical depth and operational leadership. Outside of product work he has a creative background as an internationally published, award-winning photographer, which surfaces in his polished presentation and storytelling skills. Based in Chicago and academically grounded in computer science from Jagiellonian and Radboud with further study at Stanford, he brings a rare mix of startup grit, large-scale cloud product experience, and communication finesse.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Radboud UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Jagiellonian UniversityMS&E274 - Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy
MS&E276 - Entrepreneurial Management and Finance, MS&E274 - Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy
MS&E276 - Entrepreneurial Management and Finance at Stanford University
Github Skills (14)
api-management10
automation10
azure10
script10
automations10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
deployment-automation10
cicd10
javascript9
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-services9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/api-management-developer-portal
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Developer portal provided by the Azure API Management service.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:62 releases, 6 reviews, 69 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on automating and streamlining the deployment process for the Azure API Management developer portal. They made changes to existing scripts, like `deploy-default.bat` and `configure.js`, to incorporate automated configuration, content generation, and deployment steps. The user also added comments and refactored scripts to improve clarity and maintainability, demonstrating an emphasis on automation and deployment efficiency. They also adjusted the scripts to work with different parameters for storage and Azure API Management services.
azure-api-managementmicrosoftapi-managementazuredeveloper-portal
Azure/API-Management
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Repository with Azure API Management release notes.
Contributions:42 releases, 20 reviews, 21 commits in 2 years
azure-api-managementazureapi-management
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