Sarah Lean
Senior Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer at Microsoft
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSarah Lean is a Senior Cloud & AI Infrastructure Solution Engineer with over 18 years in IT and a decade focused on cloud architecture, currently shaping Azure solutions at Microsoft as a pre-sales technical architect. She blends deep hands-on infrastructure expertise—especially hybrid and on-prem Azure scenarios—with customer obsession and stakeholder advocacy, helping organisations re-architect, migrate, and optimise workloads. A proven community builder and communicator, she founded the Glasgow Azure User Group and was named a Microsoft MVP in 2022, reflecting her public-facing technical leadership. Her background spans industries from Scotch whisky to manufacturing and the arts, giving her a pragmatic, cross-sector perspective on technology decisions. Beyond enterprise work, she’s an international speaker and community evangelist who surprisingly also farms in her spare time, bringing a grounded, systems-thinking approach to complex cloud problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Strathaven AcademyBTech Applied Computing, BTech Applied Computing at Bell College of Technology
Github Skills (150)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
weeyin83/Lab-Deployment-in-Azure
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Sample files for my Lab Deployments in Azure blog post - https://www.techielass.com/lab-deployment-in-azure
Contributions:28 commits, 34 PRs, 95 pushes in 2 years 3 months
deploymentblog-postdeploymentsazurelab
weeyin83/14daysofgit
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
This repository is my journey learning Git and getting familiar with more commands. My aim is to spend at least an hour a day learning a new command or figuring out a way to be more efficient using Git.
Contributions:57 commits, 32 PRs, 34 pushes in 9 months
source-controlpythonaimdayjourney
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