Chad Peters

Senior Software Engineer @Microsoft

Azure Orbital, Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS): Government Collaboration: Spearheaded the integration of Azure Orbital with US Government clients, emphasizing my adeptness in understanding and catering to government specifications. Architectural Excellence: Expertly designed and implemented cross-domain solutions, specializing in the onboarding of services into new government cloud regions. Deployment Efficiency: Innovated a \"zero-touch\" deployment methodology, dramatically reducing service deployment times into new regions by 90%, showcasing my strong abilities in automation and optimization. Azure Service Development for Contract Customer: Resource Management: Conceptualized and executed a Resource Provider using openapi 2.0/3.0 standards. Successfully generated clients, SDKs, and libraries with autorest, underlining my depth in backend API development. Team Leadership: Functioned as the Kanban Master for daily standups, ensuring streamlined operations and timely project deliveries. Trained and guided junior engineers, reflecting my capability in a people management role and knowledge transfer. Azure Data Factory (ADF): Deployment & Automation: Championed the service\'s deployment into a new air-gapped cloud region. Architected C# T4 Templates to facilitate automatic generation of deployment artifacts. This resulted in the successful implementation of a \"zero-touch\" deployment methodology, significantly minimizing technical debt and enhancing service maintainability. Core Skills & Expertise:* PaaS/SaaS services on cloud platforms (especially Microsoft Azure)* Microservices architecture & backend API development * RESTful web services & cross-domain solution design * Cloud deployment methodologies & optimization techniques * Government cloud regions & specifications * CI/CD pipelines & DevOps methodologies * Team leadership & junior engineer mentorship