Gerd Saurer
Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Fabric at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolGerd Saurer is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft driving partner success and extension strategies for Microsoft Fabric, blending product strategy with hands-on execution. Based in Vienna, he has over seven years of focused cloud and partner leadership at Microsoft, plus more than two decades of engineering and team-lead experience dating back to early distributed systems and CEP work. He has moved between technical delivery, global partnerships, and industry-focused cloud solutions (notably retail and CPG), helping customers adopt AI, big data and IoT at scale. As a lecturer and recent Executive MBA candidate, he pairs practical engineering depth with formal leadership and change-management training. Colleagues know him for a Try.Fail.Learn.Succeed mindset and a knack for spotting joint opportunities that turn platform capabilities into saleable partner offerings. An early developer of complex event processing systems, he brings rare experience bridging low-level system design and high-level partner ecosystem strategy.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyExecutive MBA, Leadership and Change Management, MBA, Executive MBA, Leadership and Change Management, MBA at FH Burgenland
English, German, Hungarian
Github Skills (28)
python10
mqtt10
microsoft-azure10
iot10
microsoft-fabric10
fabric10
raspberry-pi10
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
home-assistant9
home-automation9
azure9
dotnet8
smartmeter8
microsoft8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gsaurer/ha-ems
Apr 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:117 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
microsoft/Microsoft-Fabric-tools-workload
Sep 2025 - Mar 2026
A Fabric Workload that adds different tools as items.
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 55 pushes in 6 months
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