Suhas Rao
App Innovation Lead - GCS Cloud & AI Platforms
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSuhas Rao is an App Innovation Lead at Microsoft with 15+ years driving Azure application modernization, developer productivity, and AI-powered software practices across APAC, Australia, and the US. He combines hands-on architecture and delivery experience—from leading 12-person dev teams and large enterprise intranet builds to running GitHub Copilot adoption programs and agentic DevOps pilots—to produce measurable engineering outcomes. Deep technical fluency in Azure PaaS, .NET, containers, and Azure OpenAI/LLMOps lets him bridge platform engineering, delivery execution, and customer success for top FSI accounts. Known for “doing it right the first time,” he architects scalable patterns and runs modernization sprints that are now being scaled globally. His cross-cultural experience and history of awards and trusted-advisor relationships underpin a practical, outcomes-first approach to AI-enabled developer transformation.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
2005 Information Technology Bachelor of Engineering, 2005 Information Technology Bachelor of Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Github Skills (22)
bicep10
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
api10
sdk10
rest10
arm-templates10
dotnet-core10
arm10
azure10
rest-api10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raosuhas/azure-quickstart-templates
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Azure Quickstart Templates
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 8 days
arm-templatestemplatesazure
Azure/azure-custom-providers
May 2019 - Oct 2020
Collection of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and resources to get started with developing custom resource providers
Contributions:24 commits, 24 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 5 months
resource-providersdevelopingget-startedresource-managerproviders
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