Ross Smith
Software Engineer at Microsoft
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRoss Smith is a cloud-focused software engineer and principal engineering manager with nine years at Microsoft, helping partners and public sector ISVs design and ship Azure-native solutions. He blends deep hands-on experience in DevOps, microservices and distributed systems with a strong background in developer practices and cloud architecture, frequently improving CI/CD, DevContainers and automated deployment for open-source projects. Ross has contributed to high-profile repos like HashiCorp's Terraform Azure provider and Microsoft's AzureTRE, adding ACL management, refining error handling, and building automated AAD asset creation and Porter bundle pipelines. His career spans technical leadership and hands-on delivery from enterprise insurance platforms to low-latency pricing systems, showing a track record of operationalizing complex systems at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who turns platform strategy into reproducible engineering practices that accelerate partner delivery.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Software Engineering Management, 2:1, BSc Hons, Software Engineering Management, 2:1 at Bournemouth UniversityJudd School
Github Skills (24)
github-ci10
docker10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
go10
ci-cd-pipeline10
azure10
githubaction-workflow10
azure-cognitive-search10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AzureTRE
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
An accelerator to help organizations build Trusted Research Environments on Azure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:305 reviews, 93 commits, 199 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ross primarily focused on improving the repository's infrastructure and build processes. They implemented a CI/CD pipeline for automated testing and deployment, and added tools such as Devcontainer for builds and the inclusion of automated AAD asset creation. Additionally, the user updated and enhanced the build and publish process for Porter bundles and managed the migration of resources within the project.
trustedorganizationsazureacceleratorenvironments
Azure-Samples/azure-search-power-skills
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
A collection of useful functions to be deployed as custom skills for Azure Cognitive Search
Role in this project:DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Ross focused on setting up and configuring the deployment infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for the Azure Cognitive Search power skills. Their commits included setting up a DevContainer for development, creating scripts for deploying the base infrastructure and the skill itself using Terraform, and automating image tagging and pushing to a container registry. They also worked on integrating the deployment with Azure Search, including creating data sources, indexes, skillsets, and indexers.
cognitiveazure-cognitive-searchdeployedazurecognitive-search
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