Dave Hanson
Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Hanson is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft with eight years focused on Azure Data & AI and a long history in infrastructure and systems engineering. He designs and pilots modern data platforms—leveraging Databricks, Cosmos, SQL DW, Kafka/Lambda patterns and cognitive/ML services—to help organizations migrate, secure, and operationalize data workloads. A certified Azure Architect, Database Administrator, Security Engineer, Data Engineer and AI Engineer, he pairs deep operational experience (managing thousands of servers and global DR) with customer-facing proof-of-concept leadership. Based in Fargo, ND, he translates complex estate analyses into pragmatic cloud transition strategies and automation that reduce manual toil. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical direction during incidents and for turning tricky legacy constraints into opportunity-driven cloud architectures. He quietly combines hands-on troubleshooting roots with strategic solutioning, often surfacing simple automation that prevents recurring outages.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (15)
arm10
powershell10
microsoft-azure10
azure9
microsoft8
terraform-provider5
terraform5
command-line-interface5
azure-pipelines3
networking3
azure-cli2
wan2
azure-resource-manager2
virtual2
private-cloud1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davmhelm/azure-docs
Feb 2022 - Jun 2025
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:23 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 4 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
davmhelm/azure-policy
Jun 2021 - Apr 2024
Repository for Azure Resource Policy built-in definitions and samples
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 11 months
policydefinitionstflintazurebuilt-in
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