Neil Peterson
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Peterson is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience architecting and operationalizing Azure cloud platforms from Redmond. He has progressed through roles spanning Cloud Solution Architect, Developer Relations for AKS, and program management for Azure deployment experiences, blending customer-facing engineering with deep platform reliability work. At Microsoft he focuses on building resilient, automated cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling that scales across Windows Server container scenarios and Kubernetes. His open-source contributions include maintaining container build and deployment scripts in MicrosoftDocs' virtualization docs, reflecting a practical mastery of Windows container image automation and cross-version compatibility. Based in Sammamish, WA, Neil pairs hands-on scripting and automation skills with strategic leadership to reduce operational friction for large cloud teams. He’s known for translating complex platform challenges into repeatable, well-documented solutions that improve developer and operator experiences.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology at University of Houston
Github Skills (10)
powershell10
windows-containers10
docker10
containerization10
dockers10
build-automation10
infrastructure-as-code9
cicd8
networking8
hyper-v8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Place to store our documentation, code samples, etc for public consumption.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:791 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the repository by integrating and maintaining container-related configurations and automation scripts. Their commits focused on modifying PowerShell scripts to build and deploy Windows Server container images, particularly concerning installing and configuring container hosts, including the management of networking, and the import of base images. Furthermore, the user adapted scripts to be compatible with different Windows Server image versions, showcasing an understanding of build processes for containerized environments.
placecode-documentationconsumption
nepeters007/TailwindTraders-Backend
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Tailwind Traders Backend Services
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
tailwindcssbackend-servicestailwindbackendtraders
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