Paulo Costa
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Chandler, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolPaulo Costa is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over two decades of hands-on experience spanning infrastructure, automation and cloud engineering. He rose from teaching BASIC and COBOL at 15 to designing global Active Directory and large-scale migration projects at Siemens, then joined Microsoft where he moved from premier field engineering to AzureCAT and core storage engineering roles. Paulo blends deep expertise in Windows/Linux ops, AD, PKI and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, C#) with a strong track record in automation and customer-facing technical delivery. He’s contributed to major open-source projects including the Terraform AzureRM provider and Azure RDS deployment templates, focusing on storage/NetApp features and deployment automation. Known for mentoring peers and translating complex customer needs into product feedback, he pairs technical rigor with a persistent customer obsession. Based in Chandler, AZ, he holds enterprise certifications and a practical business administration background that inform his cross-functional leadership.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Business Administration, Bachelor Business Administration at Universidade São Judas Tadeu
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
powershell10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
system-configuration10
dsc10
autoconfiguration10
deployment-automation10
terraform10
azure-resource-manager9
resource-manager9
arm9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/RDS-Templates
Dec 2018 - May 2019
ARM Templates for Remote Desktop Services deployments
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:156 commits, 48 PRs, 160 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the automation and deployment aspects of the project. Their work focused on modifying scripts within the `wvd-templates` to enable the deployment of the RDAgent, implement persistent desktop options, add user default configurations and perform backup configurations. The changes involved modifying PowerShell scripts for the CustomScriptExtension and DSC resources, ensuring the correct file structure, and implementing improvements to the build process. The user's work included automating deployment, configuration, and management of the WVD environment.
remote-desktopremote-desktop-servicesdesktopdeploymentsarm-templates
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 reviews, 17 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Terraform provider for Azure. Their work involved fixing bugs related to volume size limits, implementing support for cross-region replication features, and adding support for the `security_style` property. They also added support for creating volumes from snapshots and addressed code inconsistencies. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on the NetApp volume functionalities within the Azure provider.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
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