Máté Barabás

About Máté Barabás

With 2 decades of experience in the IT industry, I am a passionate Technical Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on cloud infrastructure solutions. I specialize in building secure, compliant, and reusable infrastructure solutions that accelerate cloud adoption at scale. I lead the development of Azure Verified Modules (AVM)- that empower teams to deliver faster, reduce risk, and maintain operational excellence.My mission is to streamline the adoption and deployment of Azure solutions based on Microsoft\'s best practices and guidance, and to enable customers to achieve their business goals and outcomes. I bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the team, as I have worked across different regions, cultures, and technologies, and have collaborated with various stakeholders, from engineers and consultants to sales and marketing.In my current role, I lead globally distributed virtual teams of subject matter experts to develop and maintain key cloud infrastructure solutions, while collaborating to the Cloud Adoption Framework, the Well Architected Framework and Azure Landing Zones. I also drive our teams engage with customers and partners to scope, deliver, and improve these solutions, and to incorporate feedback and lessons learned into our public guidance and assets. I leverage my skills in customer acceptance, program management, and cross-functional team leadership to ensure the quality, consistency, and alignment of our solutions and guidance, and to foster trust and open communication among our organization leaders, program managers, and engineers.I lead with empathy and openness, inspiring resilience and collaboration through driving a committed community.

Experience

1. Principal Technical Program Manager - Scale Ai Solutioning

   Microsoft

   Jul 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Leading the development of Azure Verified Modules (AVM) as the foundation for secure, reliable and reusable infrastructure across Azure. My focus is on driving adoption, governance, and operational excellence to enable teams to deliver faster with confidence- AVM Program Leadership (AVM Framework / Core Platform - Program & Product Improvements): Defining and executing the AVM roadmap, aligning technical standards with enterprise priorities to accelerate cloud deployments and improve predictability. Leading the definition/refinement of AVM principles, guidelines, and procedures; publishing documentation; managing AVM core team; enhancing public site design; managing the development of automated testing and publication framework- Scaling contribution: Growing the community of contributors and users by hosting/contributing to internal and external community engagement calls- Improving processes, measuring success: driving the automation of repeatable processes, improving products by leading the development of dashboards for contribution and consumption metrics- Security & Compliance by Design: facilitating the embedding of AVM principles into workflows, ensuring its modules meet security and compliance benchmarks without slowing innovation- Cross-Functional Enablement: driving a unified approach for engineering, product, and business stakeholders- Community & Best Practices: Championing AVM adoption through guidance, tooling, and inclusive practices, creating a culture of reusable, high-quality modules.

Education

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics

  Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2004 — 2010

Skills

• Tcp/Ip
• Microsoft Technologies: Active Directory, Pki, Dhcp, Dns, Dfs, Wsus, Clustering
• Messaging Systems: Exchange Server 2010, 2013
• Server Based Computing Technologies: Rds (Ts), Vdi, Appv
• Hyper-V
• Automation of Adminstrative Tasks Using Powershell Scripts
• Server Virtualization Technologies: Hyper-V, Scvmm / Vmware Esx, Vcenter
• Hardware Knowledge: Hp, Dell, Ibm, Fujitsu Server / Blade / Storage Devices
• Deeper Knowledge of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visio
• Server Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012
• Basic Knowledge of Linux Systems
• Virtualization
• Cisco Technologies
• Developing Basic Macros in Vba
• Basic Knowledge of Tcp/Ip, San Networks, Data Warehouse and Ms Sql