Taylor Brown

About Taylor Brown

I’m a passionate technical and people leader driving positive innovation in bleeding-edge technology spaces at Microsoft. Empowering my teams to achieve their best is always my main priority, followed by the global customers we support, and the technology that forms the foundation of our products and services. I build exceptional teams, foster a positive culture, and role-model the value of transparency, accountability, respect, and empathy in everything I do.My tech career began when I dove head-first into the Microsoft ecosystem as a tester for Windows XP and fell completely in love with software development. The thrill of writing my first application—enabling one person to do the work of five—cemented my desire to continue in this world. Since then, I’ve gobbled up every article and resource that comes my way and learned directly from the brightest subject-matter experts in the global company.The most important lesson I’ve learned is the incalculable value of people-centric leadership. Bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary, and non-traditional talent to align on a common vision is the best part of my work. I strive to foster a dynamic, trust-based climate around the products we build and deliver, maximize each person’s strengths to make the greatest impact, and enable individual growth. My team has one of the highest Work Group Health indexes— a measurement of team health and happiness— in our division. Specialties: Virtualization Containers Microsoft Azure Windows Server Hyper-V Empathetic, Empowering Leadership Coaching & Mentoring Talented People Software Development Lifecycle Agile Methodologies Technology Evangelism in Blogs, Interviews, & Presentations Public Speaking Translating Complex Ideas for Diverse, Cross-Cultural Audiences Diversity & Inclusion Empathy & Compassion

Experience

1. Leading Product Management for Windows Server Containers, Management and First Parties

   Microsoft

   May 2025 — Present

   I have the privilege to lead our product management teams accountable for Windows Server Containers, Windows Server Management and Windows Server for first party services. Our team deeply understands our customer needs, owns, develops and refines our product strategies in coordination with the larger platform directions along with driving product features in innovation.We specifically deliver key platform components enabling Windows Server Container support in Kubernetes including (but not limited to) Azure Kubernetes Services, Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Elastic Kubernetes Services and RedHat Open Shift. We own Windows Admin Center delivering extensible and world-class management for Windows Server. We partner closely with services across Microsoft that build on Windows Server to drive efficiency, security and reliability.

Education

• Bellevue College

  Coursework

Skills

• Citrix
• Vdi
• Data Center
• Software Development
• Program Management
• Product Development
• Netapp
• Microsoft Technologies
• Disaster Recovery
• Saas
• Powershell
• San
• Kubernetes
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Windows Server
• Vmware
• Virtualization
• Containers
• Cloud Computing
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Docker
• Testing
• Windows
• Operating Systems
• Hyper-V
• High Availability
• Storage
• Storage Area Networks
• Microsoft Products
• Systems Management
• Management
• Software Project Management
• System Deployment
• Servers