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Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Building cloud-scale messaging systems, deployment automation, and sovereign cloud infrastructure.

I specialize in Azure, distributed systems, DevOps automation, and cloud reliability engineering. My passion is designing solutions that simplify complex operational challenges at scale.

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Harman Birring
$ az servicebus
all systems healthy
10+years in infrastructure
2hyperscalers: AWS & Azure
Sovereign& isolated cloud focus

01 — about

A reliability-minded engineer.

I'm a software engineer with a background in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and systems administration. I've spent my career deploying and operating services in highly regulated and isolated cloud environments, first at AWS and now at Microsoft. I care about building systems that stay up, and tooling that helps engineers find and fix problems quickly.

Focus

  • Reliability & incident response
  • Sovereign cloud readiness
  • Automation & tooling

Core Expertise

Cloud Platforms

Azure • AWS • Sovereign Cloud Deployments

Messaging & Distributed Systems

Azure Service Bus • Event Hubs • Event-Driven Architecture

DevOps & Automation

Terraform • CI/CD • GitHub Actions • Azure DevOps • Automation Platforms

Programming

Python • Bash • PowerShell • C#

Infrastructure

Linux • Networking • Security • Cloud Operations

Leadership

Cross-team Collaboration • Architecture Design • Reliability Engineering

02 — experience

Where I've worked.

  1. Microsoft

    Jun 2021 – Present

    Senior Software Engineer Feb 2026 – Present

    Software Engineer II Jun 2021 – Feb 2026

    Azure Messaging: Service Bus & Event Hubs

    • Improve reliability, security, and operational health of Service Bus and Event Hubs in sovereign cloud environments.
    • Lead end-to-end incident investigation, building diagnostic tooling and coordinating reliability fixes across teams.
    • Enable sovereign cloud expansion through cluster deployment, workload onboarding, and service readiness work.
    • Build automation and troubleshooting tools that reduce operational toil and speed up mitigation.
    • Harden synthetic monitoring and deployment pipelines, and prototype more scalable, cost-efficient scale-unit designs.

  2. Booz Allen Hamilton

    Dec 2020 – Jun 2021

    Lead Cyber Systems Engineer

    • Engineered and supported offensive cyber capabilities for mission-focused programs.
    • Led systems engineering efforts across the development and testing lifecycle.

  3. Applied Insight

    Sep 2020 – Dec 2020

    DevOps Engineer II

    • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, and releases.
    • Managed deployments, including a multi-cloud Django application.
    • Troubleshot build, deployment, and runtime issues across environments.

  4. Amazon Web Services

    May 2018 – Aug 2020

    DevOps Cloud Engineer

    • Deployed and operated services in AWS GovCloud and isolated regions.
    • Troubleshot and resolved issues in large-scale distributed systems.
    • Built DevOps tooling to automate deployments and operations in restricted environments.

  5. Leidos

    Dec 2017 – Apr 2018

    Systems Administrator II

    • Administered and maintained a virtualized server environment.
    • Handled provisioning, patching, and troubleshooting of virtual machines.

  6. Textron Systems

    Jan 2016 – Dec 2017

    Systems Administrator

03 — featured architectures

Featured Architectures

Real-world cloud architecture designs demonstrating distributed systems, messaging platforms, deployment automation, and enterprise-scale reliability.

Global retail event processing architecture diagram

Global Retail Event Processing Platform

Scalable event-driven architecture capable of processing millions of order events per day using Azure Event Hubs, AKS, Cosmos DB, and multi-region disaster recovery.

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Sovereign cloud deployment architecture diagram

Sovereign Cloud Deployment Platform

Multi-environment deployment architecture supporting public, government, and regulated cloud environments using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Azure-native services.

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Enterprise messaging platform architecture diagram

Enterprise Messaging Platform

Distributed messaging solution utilizing Event Hubs, Service Bus, consumer groups, partitioned processing, observability, and geo-disaster recovery.

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04 — education

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

May 2016

B.S. Information Systems

Concentration in network administration

05 — contact

Let's build something reliable.

The best way to reach me is by email.

hbirring01 [at] gmail [dot] com
LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗

Architecture diagram

Architecture diagram