Carey Halton
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolCarey Halton is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building large-scale cloud search and data platforms, currently working on Azure Data / Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts. He has deep .NET/C# expertise and a strong full-stack background from contributions to Azure Cognitive Search, including ingestion, enrichment, telemetry, billing, and automated incident resolution for multimillion-dollar products. Carey has implemented practical AI enrichments and integrations with Azure Key Vault and Blob Storage, and prototyped custom power skills used by the Azure Search community. He balances hands-on engineering with operational ownership—regularly handling live-site on-call duties and mentoring new hires to ramp quickly on large codebases. His open-source work on Azure Search samples (including a blob decryption power skill and ARM template updates) shows a focus on secure, production-ready tooling that bridges cloud services and developer experience. Based in Atlanta, he combines academic training from Georgia Tech with real-world system design across Microsoft and major cloud projects.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyN/A Dual-Enrollment, N/A Dual-Enrollment at Palm Beach State CollegeSalutatorian Academic Honors Diploma Computer Technology Academy, Salutatorian Academic Honors Diploma Computer Technology Academy at John I. Leonard High School
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Github Skills (29)
azure-cognitive-services10
azure-keyvault10
azure-functions10
azure-blob-storage10
arm-templates10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
azure-search10
net-sdk9
dotnet-sdk9
sdk9
netcore9
front-end-development7
vector6
rest-api6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AzureSearch_JFK_Files
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
This repo contains the sample code of the Azure Search and Cognitive Services used to provide insights and analysis around the JFK Files.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 40 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Carey primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Azure Search and Cognitive Services integration for the JFK Files repository. Their work included adding and configuring Cognitive Services accounts, updating ARM templates, and refactoring code to utilize the Azure Search .NET SDK. They also made updates to the frontend components. The user demonstrated the implementation of backend and frontend changes, showcasing a full-stack focus.
azure-searchcognitive-services
Azure-Samples/azure-search-power-skills
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
A collection of useful functions to be deployed as custom skills for Azure Cognitive Search
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Carey primarily contributed to developing custom skills for Azure Cognitive Search. They implemented a prototype for a blob decryption power skill, refactored and renamed code, and added an ARM template. Furthermore, they upgraded packages and the .NET Core version and responded to feedback with some refactoring. Their work involved creating and modifying C# code for Azure Functions and integrating with Azure Key Vault and Blob storage.
azure-cognitive-search
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