Neil Bird
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Bird is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with two decades of IT experience and a nine-year focus on Azure and cloud engineering. He specializes in Azure IaaS/PaaS, Azure Edge, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code, combining deep hands-on troubleshooting and benchmarking skills with a strong operational discipline informed by ITIL. Neil has driven high-profile Azure Edge deployments, authored parts of the Azure Well-Architected Framework and baseline architectures, and consistently removes blockers for complex customer projects. Known for turning incident learnings into operational procedures, he blends product strategy with practical implementation to improve security, least-privilege posture and CI/CD maturity across large enterprises. Based in Leeds, he brings a rare mix of field engineering grit and product leadership that helps customers adopt cutting-edge Microsoft solutions reliably.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Maths, Chemistry and Computer Science, A Levels, Maths, Chemistry and Computer Science at Oakbank Upper School
English
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Github Skills (22)
microsoft-azure10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
azurestack10
microsoft9
intelligent8
azure-cosmos-db8
testing7
cosmosdb7
mocking7
decision-tree6
tdd6
bdd6
pester6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/odinforazurelocal
Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Odin, the Norse god embodying strategic thinking and architecture, is your guide for Azure Local deployments. This Optimal Deployment and Infrastructure Navigator provides a decision tree interface to select an Azure Local deployment type, and instance design using validated architecture and network configuration.
Contributions:28 PRs, 255 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
azuredecision-treenetwork-configurationazurelocalsovereign-ai
NeilBird/PowerShell-Snippnets
Jun 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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