Summary
Zuhair Parvez is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building cloud infrastructure and production services for Azure Core. He led the global launch of the Azure Carbon Service and now expands the platform to enable new hardware scenarios, combining hands-on systems engineering with program-level execution. Earlier work on Service Fabric’s Reliable Collections delivered high-performance, ACID-compliant replicated storage used across Azure’s core services, reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems and reliability. Educated at Georgia Tech (MS) and UT Austin (BS ECE), he pairs rigorous academic training with practical firmware and tooling experience from internships at Tesla, Intel, and others. A pragmatic leader, he’s known for driving cross-org initiatives that turn research-grade components into zero-to-production services at hyperscale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Jesuit High School
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland Community College
Mathematics, Mathematics at Portland State University
Bachelor of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology