Tony Surma
Chief Technology Officer - Americas Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTony Surma is a veteran technology leader and current CTO for Americas Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft, with 12+ years in senior technical and go-to-market roles and a career at Microsoft dating back to 2000. He builds partner ecosystems and cloud architectures that drive measurable customer impact, combining strategic leadership with hands-on engineering and DevOps experience. Tony co-founded Humanitarian Toolbox and contributes backend and deployment fixes to its crisis and disaster response projects, showing a strong commitment to open-source humanitarian technology. Known for mentoring technical teams and launching new centers and capabilities, he excels at translating complex cloud product and partner strategies into operational programs that scale. Based in Chicago, he pairs an Illinois computer science background with a rare blend of enterprise leadership and grassroots volunteer-driven engineering.
12 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Lake Park High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (18)
database-migrations10
asp-net-core10
entity-framework10
dotnet-core10
netcore10
database-migration10
csharp10
deployment-automation10
msbuild9
asp-net9
database-management9
powershell8
configuration-management8
deploying8
github-ci4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HTBox/crisischeckin
Jul 2013 - Apr 2017
Crisischeckin Humanitarian Toolbox repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 49 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Humanitarian Toolbox's crisischeckin repository. They removed project references, likely to facilitate online deployment. They addressed database-related issues, including fixes for rerunning in the local database and refactoring database migrations. The user also made changes to app settings and configurations.
toolboxrisk-assessmenthumanitariansinger
HTBox/allReady
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:375 commits, 509 PRs, 492 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily focused on modifying the `deploy.cmd` file, which appears to be a deployment script for an ASP.NET Core web application deployed to Azure. Their contributions involved updating the script for RTM transitions, fixing issues related to global.json in Azure deployment builds, correcting the directory deployed, and incorporating changes for .NET Core C# projects. The user's work ensured the correct building, publishing and deployment of the application to the live environment.
awarenesspreparednesscampaignsc-sharporganizations
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