Hi, I'm Johnson

Building the cloud  that AI runs on.

Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Azure. Shaping the container infrastructure behind the world's largest cloud and AI workloads.

About

What I do

AI Infrastructure

Native systems for AI

Cold starts for training and inferencing. HPC orchestration and Kubernetes clusters for agentic systems. Parallel delivery of containers and models to frontier labs.

Reliability & Performance

Built for the worst day

High availability, seamless failovers, hardened networking, and performance at every layer, built into Azure to enable the world's largest AI workloads.

Security & Governance

Trust at every layer

Supply chain security, authentication and authorization, RBAC and ABAC, observability, and governance for AI workloads and the artifacts they depend on.

Leadership

Driving teams and strategy

Senior PM working with teams across Azure's containers and cloud-native portfolio to land impact end to end, from the world's largest AI customers to Azure-wide initiatives.

Engineering

Leading by building

Designing systems, shipping production code, and working incident bridges. Building what PMs, engineers, and business operations all trust. Sleeves rolled up, even while leading.

Impact & Voice

Compounding in public

Years of durable business impact across Azure and Microsoft. Shaping the public conversation. Evangelizing systems thinking, structural reasoning, and lessons learned for AI infrastructure and economics.

Started as a software engineer across the Linux and Kubernetes ecosystems, building engineering fundamentals deep in Azure's stack.Grew into a technical product manager, landing durable capabilities across Azure Container Registry and Azure Kubernetes Service.Senior PM driving Azure-wide initiatives on the industry's emergent problems.

The road here

Experience

Azure Product

Senior Product Manager

Microsoft Azure
Sep 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA

Senior PM across Azure's Kubernetes and container registries portfolio: Azure Container Registry, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure Cloud Native Fundamentals. Scaling the performance, reliability, and supply chain security behind the world's largest cloud and AI workloads.

Product Manager II

Microsoft Azure
Apr 2022 — Sep 2025 · Seattle, WA

Owned the performance, reliability, and security of Azure Container Registry and its integrations across Azure services. Drove vulnerability management, supply chain security, and open source container ecosystem improvements to enable scale.

Azure Engineering

Software Engineer II

Microsoft Azure
Sep 2020 — Apr 2022 · Vancouver, BC → Seattle, WA

Extended telemetry, on-call automation, and security playbooks for Linux virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters. Helped build Azure's first service mesh offering on Open Service Mesh: Envoy-based traffic management, observability, and governance for Kubernetes at scale.

Software Engineer

Microsoft Azure
Nov 2019 — Aug 2020 · Vancouver, BC

Designed fast user provisioning systems for Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu through cloud-init and open source projects, powering rapid deployment of Azure Virtual Machines and scale-out of Azure Kubernetes Service clusters.

Internships

Student Software Engineer

Atlassian
May 2019 — Aug 2019 · Sydney, NSW

Planned and executed the migration of Jira's highest-traffic pages, Jira issues and Jira boards, to React single-page applications. Improved Apdex and reduced page latency.

Software Engineering Intern

Microsoft Azure
Nov 2018 — Feb 2019 · Seattle, WA

Integrated fast user provisioning and telemetry of Red Hat and CentOS on Azure Virtual Machines, enabling scale out of data warehousing workloads.

Software Engineering Intern

Cog Systems
Nov 2017 — Feb 2018 · Sydney, NSW

Built the build-and-validation pipeline for a seL4/OKL4 microkernel-based hypervisor on AWS, enabling fast builds and validation of embedded deployments to secure smartphones and automotive systems.

Education

Computer Science Teaching Assistant

University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Feb 2017 — Nov 2018 · Sydney, NSW

Teaching assistant, academic tutor, lab demonstrator, and exam marker for introductory computer science classes across 4 semesters: data structures and algorithms, microprocessors, software construction, computer systems fundamentals, and programming.

B.S. Computer Science

University of New South Wales (UNSW)
2016 — 2019 · Sydney, NSW

Distinction Graduate, Dean's Honours List.

What I've done

Portfolio

What others say

In their words

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