Summary
Sia Gholami is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building and modernising cloud-native platforms and engineering culture across enterprise and healthcare domains. Currently leading a team at Microsoft focused on healthcare innovation, she blends client-facing delivery with strategic mentorship to raise standards in quality, security and DevOps practices. Her background spans DevSecOps leadership, platform engineering and large-scale migrations to Azure and AWS, with repeated success driving cultural change through CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and peer-review discipline. Sia is equally comfortable in the weeds—writing ARM, SaltStack and automation pipelines—and at the executive table, shaping tech strategy and career frameworks. Based in Stony Stratford, she brings a pragmatic, workshop-driven approach to problem solving that consistently converts technical debt into measurable business velocity.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Westminster
Persian, Danish