Terry Lanfear
Principal Content Developer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTerry Lanfear is a Principal Content Developer at Microsoft with over three decades of engineering and content leadership, focused on planning and delivering Azure and Windows Server product information for IT professionals and developers. He combines deep technical roots—years of C++ and Ada development and early senior engineering roles at Boeing and other firms—with extensive people and program management experience, having led teams of 10–60 employees and vendors. Terry is skilled at turning complex technical requirements into clear, consumable documentation, media, and editorial standards while managing budgets up to $2.5M and overseeing outsourced and offshore delivery. His MBA in Program and Software Management complements a pragmatic approach to project scoping, cross-organizational collaboration, and vendor management, and he brings the perspective of a former hands-on developer who now shapes how products are documented and adopted.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Program and Software Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Program and Software Management at Florida Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The University of Memphis
Github Skills (11)
azure10
microsoft-azure10
microsoft10
security10
architecture9
documentation8
azure-architecture8
sql-server6
sql-server-data-tools6
ssms6
microsoft-sql-server5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TerryLanfear/architecture-center
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Azure Architecture Center
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
centerazure-functionsazureazure-architecture-centerarchitecture
MicrosoftDocs/security
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Public repo to sync with security-pr
Contributions:397 commits, 65 comments, 77 issues in 3 years 1 month
security
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