Nicholas D
Azure Customer Engineer at Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas D is an Azure Customer Engineer based in Atlanta with eight years of hands-on experience in technical support, troubleshooting, and customer-facing roles, backed by a bachelor’s in IT & Cyber Security from the University of South Florida. At Microsoft he has supported large-scale data services like Cosmos DB and Azure Data Explorer, leading triage efforts and coordinating cross-team escalations to resolve complex, multi-component incidents. He combines strong operational discipline—formed through high-volume support roles and classroom AV/service-desk work—with a developer’s mindset, contributing backend fixes and test coverage to the popular aws-toolkit-vscode project to improve Lambda deletion workflows. Known for fast ticket resolution and clear customer communication, he brings practical security awareness to cloud operations and a knack for turning recurring support patterns into process improvements.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, IT & Cyber Security, Bachelor's degree, IT & Cyber Security at University of South FloridaWest Broward High School
Github Skills (12)
lambda10
typescript10
typescripts10
lambdas10
aws10
vscode-extension10
typescript-types10
testing9
serverless8
aws-cloudformation3
python3
aws-cdk3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-toolkit-vscode
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Amazon Q, CodeCatalyst, Local Lambda debug, SAM/CFN syntax, ECS Terminal, AWS resources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 48 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the AWS toolkit for VS Code, focusing on improving the Lambda function deletion workflow. They implemented a confirmation step before deleting Lambda functions, created a mock output channel for testing, and expanded test coverage. Their changes included modifications to the Lambda command files and the associated test files to ensure proper functionality and error handling, including graceful failure scenarios. They also made changes to improve the interface for deleteLambda.
aws-lambdaserverlessaws-resourcesawsecs-exec
Azure/azure-orbital-integration
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:18 reviews, 20 commits, 21 PRs in 3 months
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