Samuel Patton
Retired
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Patton is an experienced software engineer with over three decades at Microsoft, currently building core Azure services from Redmond and bringing deep expertise in systems, networking, and large-scale data ingestion. His background spans low-level Windows networking and transport subsystems to designing monitoring modules, performance-tuned mapping software, and big-data ingestion pipelines, reflecting a rare full-stack systems-to-cloud trajectory. He has repeatedly moved between hands-on development and rigorous testing roles (SDE and SDET), which gives him a strong bias for reliability and operational excellence in distributed systems. At Microsoft he has shaped components used in monitoring, Surface Hub settings, IIS security fixes, and now the "coolest cloud around," demonstrating both legacy-system mastery and modern cloud engineering. Samuel holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Montana State University and often leverages that academic grounding in solving tough production problems. A less obvious strength is his institutional memory across generations of Microsoft products, enabling him to bridge legacy protocols and next-generation cloud architectures.
5 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
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Github Skills (11)
rest-api10
azure10
dotnet10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
rest10
openapi10
azure-sdk9
microsoft9
arm6
powershell6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sampa-msft/azure-sdk-for-net
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
AVD-RDDAM/avd-rddam-azure-powershell
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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