Sterling Hammer
Senior Reliability Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSterling Hammer is a Senior Reliability Engineer with nine years in cloud and systems engineering, currently focused on improving observability and monitoring for Azure at Microsoft. He brings deep operational experience from Rackspace where he architected private and public Microsoft cloud offerings, co-created monitoring integrations, and launched Hyper-V and Azure Stack support. Comfortable at the intersection of customer-facing troubleshooting and internal platform reliability, Sterling has a track record of turning operational learnings into repeatable processes and tooling. He excels at translating complex cloud concepts for diverse audiences, having trained and advised customers and senior stakeholders on cloud strategy, governance, and CI/CD. An early web entrepreneur, he ran a high-traffic gaming community site hosted on Rackspace cloud infrastructure, giving him practical experience scaling real-world services. Based in Redmond, Washington, he blends hands-on systems engineering with product-minded reliability work to drive measurable improvements in customer outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Aided Drafting, High School Diploma Computer Aided Drafting at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School
Github Skills (61)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
alm10
api10
powershell10
azure10
dotnet9
markdown9
csharp9
static-site9
site-generator9
api-documentation9
windows-server9
arm9
documentation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sahammer/SimpleTradeSkillExporter
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
A simple trade skill exporter for World of Warcraft
Contributions:3 releases, 18 PRs, 31 pushes in 9 days
sahammer/azure-docs
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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