Simon Kurtz
Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Cross Solution Architect at Microsoft
Columbia, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolSimon 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
18 years of employment as a software developer
NorthWest Arkansas Community CollegeBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Arkansas
English, German
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Github Skills (190)
microsoft-azure10
web-performance10
visual-studio10
registers10
javascript10
gulp10
editor10
directives10
web-developer10
azure10
angularjs-templates10
cli10
angular10
npm-cli10
electron10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
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
simonua/protractor
May 2018 - May 2019
E2E test framework for Angular apps
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
testingtest-frameworkjasminee2e-testangular
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