Simon Waight
Senior Product Manager - Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Waight is a Senior Product Manager specializing in Azure-managed Kubernetes with 12 years of experience shaping cloud-native platforms and developer experiences. Currently driving multi-cluster capabilities for Azure Kubernetes Service via Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, he blends deep technical understanding with product strategy to make complex distributed systems easier to operate. His background spans hands-on architecture, delivery leadership and developer advocacy across Microsoft, consultancies and digital agencies, enabling him to translate CEO-level priorities into engineering roadmaps. Known for clear technical communications to audiences from executives to new graduates, he also has a track record of introducing practical innovations—such as GitHub Copilot adoption programs and Azure OpenAI-based RAG solutions—into large organisations. Based in Sydney, Simon is self-motivated, thrives in hybrid roles that mix product and engineering, and repeatedly delivers results by turning emerging cloud tech into customer-ready services.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Information Systems at Curtin University
Github Skills (200)
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azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
webjobs10
arm10
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azure-webjobs-sdk10
sdk10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sjwaight/AirQualityAzureIoTGateway
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
sjwaight/CustomisedAzureFunctionsContainers
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
Demonstrates how you can customise the Azure Functions runtime environment and use them with Kubernetes
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
azure-functionsserverlessruntimeazure-functions-v2docker
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