Summary
Paul Johnston is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft focused on cloud-native Kubernetes and Azure container networking, with four years of hands-on experience advancing production networking for containers. He combines a strong academic foundation from Georgia Tech and BYU with practical systems engineering—shaping networking for Azure while previously optimizing large-scale data workflows and web applications. Paul has built tooling and services across the stack (Python, JavaScript, Docker, Kubernetes) and has a background in presenting prototypes to customers and collaborating in rapid, sprint-driven environments. His interests in machine learning, computer vision, and deep learning inform a practical bent toward applying ML techniques to infra and networking problems, not just models. Based in Paris, he brings a global perspective to cloud architecture through Microsoft’s Customer Architecture & Engineering engagement.
4 years of coding experience