Steve Thomas
Director, Partner Programs & Experiences at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Thomas is a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience designing and scaling partner programs, digital commerce, and large-scale web services at Microsoft. As Director of Partner Programs & Experiences, he builds incentives, marketplaces, and lifecycle experiences that grow and monetize one of the world's largest technology partner ecosystems. His background in site reliability engineering and DevOps gives him a rare combination of product, operational, and engineering rigor—driving 99.9% availability targets, cost reductions, and automated self-healing platforms. Steve pairs an MBA with deep technical roots in software and distributed systems, enabling data-driven decisions using causal inference and ML to predict high-propensity partners. He’s equally fluent in program strategy and hands-on architecture, having led global teams to recruit, enable, and co-sell with partners across Azure, Modern Work, and Business Applications. Based in Redmond, he quietly blends enterprise-scale execution with a knack for turning complex incentives into measurable revenue growth.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Don Bosco Institute of Technology (D.B.I.T)Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
tss10
signing10
tpm10
esapi9
security9
internet9
microsoft-research9
linux8
sapi8
windows10iotcore6
iot6
microsoft6
reference-implementation4
specification4
iot-core3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LordOfDorks/miniDICE
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ms-iot/security
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 9 months
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