Richard Thorn
Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Thorn is a Senior Technical Program Manager with 9 years of experience building large-scale cloud governance and user-facing platforms, currently driving C&AI Platform modernization at Microsoft Azure. He led the global launch and scale of Azure Management Groups to over 10M instances, introduced graph-based resource modeling, and architected orchestration that powers tens of thousands of services while improving PM execution velocity. Earlier work at Penn Mutual combined agile transformation, mobile-first product programs, and identity/access initiatives that cut deployment time by 60% and boosted engagement, reflecting his ability to translate business priorities into measurable engineering outcomes. Known for blending technical depth (API, data modeling, multi-tenant policy architecture) with cross-team leadership, he excels at turning complex governance problems into pragmatic, scalable solutions. An unexpected strength is his history of grassroots organizational change—founding agile guilds and corporate programs that shifted how teams collaborate and deliver.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Business Management, Bachelors, Business Management at Saint Joseph's University
Github Skills (23)
command-line-interface10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
rest10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
azure-sdk9
microsoft9
python9
java7
media7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rthorn17/azure-docs
Sep 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
rthorn17/rthorn17-azurerolecheck
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 push in 2 months
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