Randy Thurman
Principal AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Mission Viejo, California, United States
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Top SchoolRandy Thurman is a Principal AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft with over seven years focused on data, analytics, and AI solutions within cloud environments and a broader two-decade career in enterprise systems and cloud engineering. He progressed through technical leadership roles at Microsoft since 2015, advancing from Data and AI Solution Architect to Principal, and previously led virtualization and cloud initiatives at Southern California Edison. Based in Mission Viejo, CA, Randy combines deep hands-on systems engineering and middleware experience with strategic architecture for AI-enabled cloud platforms, helping bridge legacy enterprise systems to modern AI services. He is skilled at turning complex operational and regulatory constraints into scalable, production-ready AI solutions for large organizations. A practical technologist, he brings both field experience from utility and finance sectors and a CS degree from Cal Poly Pomona, which informs his pragmatic approach to architecture and deployment.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (39)
data-science9
azure-machine-learning9
azure9
sdk8
microsoft-azure7
ml7
machine-learning7
azure-ai7
openai6
ai6
azd-templates6
artificial-intelligence6
llm5
large-language-models5
bots5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rmthurman/GPT4oContentExtraction
Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
Using Azure OpenAI GPT 4o to extract information such as text, tables and charts from Documents to Markdown
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
rmthurman/common
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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