Michael Craft
Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Craft is a Senior Technical Program Manager with over two decades in IT and nearly a decade in senior roles, blending systems engineering, virtualization, and program leadership at companies including Microsoft, ViaSat, eBay, and AT&T. He specializes in designing and operating large-scale, highly available virtualized environments (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix) and has a strong track record of driving major datacenter migrations, cost-saving virtualization initiatives, and enterprise logging/monitoring deployments. Known for growing and mentoring globally distributed teams, he translates complex technical requirements into operational policies and scalable architectures while communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. His hands-on background spans multi-tier UNIX and Windows systems, storage and networking design, scripting automation (Bash, Perl, PowerShell, PowerCLI), and compliance-driven operational security. Notably, he led efforts that grew environments from hundreds to tens of thousands of systems while improving availability from around 60% to 99%+, and achieved substantial monthly savings through consolidation and virtualization. Based in Snoqualmie, Washington, he combines pragmatic engineering with discreet, integrity-driven leadership to build reliable, cost-effective enterprise systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
n/a, english, biology, n/a, english, biology at Palomar College
Github Skills (23)
cloud-computing10
microsoft10
distributed-systems10
microsoft-azure10
fabric10
azure10
orchestration10
microservices10
cloud-native10
sfx8
typescript5
dotnet4
managed-identity3
linux2
traefik2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/service-fabric-cluster-templates
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Service Fabric cluster creation template samples
Contributions:3 reviews, 54 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
fabric
craftyhouse/service-fabric-cluster-templates
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Service Fabric cluster creation template samples
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
fabriccreationservice-fabricclusterterraform
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