Rick Shahid
Azure Solution Engineer, Manufacturing at Microsoft
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Shahid is an Azure Solution Engineer specializing in manufacturing, bringing nearly three decades of customer-facing experience and nine years focused on cloud roles at Microsoft. He has progressed through a broad spectrum of Azure-focused positions—from Application Architect and Technology Specialist to HPC & AI Solution Architect for media, semiconductor, and manufacturing—demonstrating deep domain expertise in high-performance compute, AI workloads, and media pipelines. Based in Los Angeles, he translates complex industry requirements into scalable Azure architectures that bridge on-premises manufacturing systems with cloud-native services. Notably, his career reflects long-term impact inside a single enterprise, evidencing both technical longevity and the ability to evolve with emerging cloud and AI trends.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Information & Computer Science, Bachelors, Information & Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (30)
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azure-media-services10
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media-services9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
vms9
azure-resource-manager9
azure9
resource-manager9
oms8
scale8
mhealth8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RickShahid/SpriteTip
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Azure/ArtistAnywhere
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Azure Artist Anywhere (AAA) is a modular and configurable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution deployment framework for Azure HPC Rendering & Visualization.
Contributions:387 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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