Simon Kurtz
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Summary
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SeniorSimon Kurtz is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect specializing in Azure App Innovation and cross-solution architecture, with a decade of professional cloud experience and a career rooted in hands-on engineering since the early 2000s. At Microsoft he helps enterprise customers and partners adopt Azure holistically—covering PaaS, security, data, infrastructure and frameworks like CAF and the Well-Architected Framework—to remove adoption blockers and deliver measurable outcomes. He’s particularly passionate about Azure API Management, Container Apps, and pragmatic integrations with Azure OpenAI, and he contributes practical guidance and code via his GitHub (simonkurtz-MSFT). Known for clear, candid perspectives and a learn-it-all mindset, he emphasizes teamwork and leveraging deep networks to solve problems he can’t tackle alone. Originally from Wuppertal, Germany, he blends international experience with a long history of architecting cloud migrations, DevOps pipelines, and scalable PaaS solutions for education and enterprise customers.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (122)
microsoft-azure10
web-performance10
javascript10
gulp10
editor10
web-developer10
angularjs-templates10
angular10
cli10
npm-cli10
electron10
e2e-test10
typescript10
angularjs10
nodejs10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
simonua/cnsl
Jun 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:338 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
simonua/cross-origin-postmessage
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Example of cross-origin postmessaging with double whitelist for sender and receiver.
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
postmessagingcross-originsenderdoublereceiver
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