Ryan Crawcour
Solutions Architect at Vista Group
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRyan Crawcour is a Solutions Architect and hands-on engineer with 25+ years of experience modernizing cloud-native systems and building high-performing teams across enterprises, scale-ups and startups. He blends deep technical delivery—particularly data and Azure-focused solutions—with strategic leadership, coaching engineers in-person and across distributed environments. His career spans senior roles at Microsoft, Xero and Vista Group where he led data platforms, Cosmos DB developer experience, and large-scale modernization efforts that emphasize scalability, cost-efficiency and resilience. An active contributor to cloud and .NET projects (including work on Azure Cosmos DB samples), he moves fluently between backend systems, streaming data, and practical security improvements. Known for clear communication across all organizational levels, he is also a visible advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech. Unusually for an architect, he pairs a chemical engineering degree foundation with decades of software and cloud expertise, giving him a rare systems-thinking perspective.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Grade 7, Grade 7 at Aston Manor Primary SchoolGrade 12, Grade 12 at Jeppe Boys HighBachelor of Engineering - BE Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Chemical Engineering at University of Pretoria
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net10
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asp-net-mvc10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
documentdb9
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javascript7
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cosmos-dotnet-v2
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
Contains samples and utilities relating to the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:149 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development of a To-Do application using .NET, working on both the backend and frontend aspects. Their work involved adding new features, such as details and delete functionality, as well as making updates to existing code and dependencies. They also addressed security concerns by incorporating protection against CSRF attacks. The user's commits indicate a focus on building a functional web application with .NET.
azure-cosmos-dbdotnet
romitgirdhar/mdwoh
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:18 PRs, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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