Rich Ross
Cross-Solution Architect at Microsoft
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Ross is a Cross-Solution Architect with 11+ years in cloud and enterprise application architecture, currently leading digital transformation engagements at the Microsoft Innovation Hub in Philadelphia. He guides customers through strategy-to-implementation conversations, builds immersive technical experiences around App Innovation, and co-leads a North America sustainability community—blending technical depth with business-focused facilitation. His career spans solution and SharePoint architecture roles at consulting firms and life sciences companies, where he translated clinical and business requirements into production enterprise applications. Comfortable moving between pre-sales, hands-on proofs-of-concept, and large-account technical leadership, he helps organizations adopt modern cloud development patterns on Azure and Microsoft 365. Based in Pennsylvania, Rich pairs a life sciences academic background with long-standing IT delivery experience, bringing a pragmatic, compliance-aware lens to cloud modernization.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Microbiology, MS, Microbiology at Jefferson HealthBS, Biology, BS, Biology at Penn State University
Github Skills (84)
audio10
sdk10
ndi10
pulse10
bot-framework10
azure-bot-service10
javascript9
obs9
microsoft-cognitive-services9
synthetic-data9
synthetic9
bots9
camp9
simulation9
virtual9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
richross/HelloDallE
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Project that takes responses to pre-defined questions, generates a prompt, which is sent to DallE for image generation.
Contributions:34 PRs, 46 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 2 months
richross/richross.github.io
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
My blog site running on GitHub pages.
Contributions:10 PRs, 38 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
blog-sitemy-blogdevopscsharpjekyll
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