Shawn Mcgough
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Mcgough is a senior cloud solution architect with over 24 years designing and building enterprise applications and a decade focused on cloud and Azure solutions. Currently a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, he brings deep hands-on experience architecting multi-tenant data estates, Infrastructure-as-Code, and end-to-end Azure data platforms including Synapse, Databricks, Data Factory, and Azure Functions. His background spans large-scale modernization projects—from replacing legacy quoting systems and building SOA web services to modernizing POS and lab data pipelines—and he routinely bridges architecture, DevOps, and platform engineering. Known for mentoring and technical hiring, he has led architecture teams and evaluated emerging tech to deliver measurable business impact. Based in Pennsylvania, he combines pragmatic engineering with enterprise governance, often translating complex integrations (ETL, SSRS, HL7) into maintainable cloud-native solutions. An experienced interviewer and team builder, he also has a track record of introducing tooling and processes (TFS/VSTS) that raised delivery maturity across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (118)
command-line-interface10
azure-cli10
azure-pipelines10
charts10
azure10
editor9
scheduler9
helm9
azure-devops9
cli9
azure-table-storage9
python9
bitnami9
windows9
visual-studio9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ShawnMcGough/fast-synapse-deploy
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
ShawnMcGough/ShawnMcGough
Jul 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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