Will Velida
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolWill Velida is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building cloud-native solutions and infrastructure automation, currently at Microsoft. He has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles across Australia and New Zealand, including a recent Lead Software Engineer position and multiple customer-facing engineering roles. Will contributes to high-profile Azure Quickstart Templates, adding Bicep IaC for AKS, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs and other services, demonstrating deep Azure provisioning and deployment expertise. His background blends commerce and information systems education with practical experience in banking, consultancy and global tech, giving him a strong mix of product-minded engineering and operational rigor. Colleagues describe him as a developer who bridges customer needs and scalable cloud architecture while still shipping code.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honors Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honors Information Systems at University of AucklandA-Levels and GCSE 3 A-Levels in English Literature Business Studies and Physical Education. 9 GCSE's, A-Levels and GCSE 3 A-Levels in English Literature Business Studies and Physical Education. 9 GCSE's at Dauntsey's School
English
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Github Skills (29)
deploying10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
deployer10
azure-deployment10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
configurations10
devops9
containerization8
bicep8
cloud-computing8
kubernetes7
eventhub7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 14 commits, 21 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Will contributed to the repository by adding multiple Bicep templates for deploying various Azure resources, including App Configuration, AKS clusters, Event Hubs, APIM with Redis cache, Cosmos DB, and Container Apps. The contributions focus on configuring infrastructure components and deploying applications using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). They demonstrated expertise in leveraging Bicep for resource provisioning and deployment within the Azure environment.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
willvelida/MyHealth.Common
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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