Software developer Tom Keane is a Principal Program Manager and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Corporation. He is an expert in distributed systems, big data, cloud computing, application development, and artificial intelligence. Keane has been instrumental in developing several groundbreaking technologies from Microsoft and has published numerous pieces on scalable data systems, distributed computing, cloud computing, and machine learning. 

His career accomplishments have made him one of the most recognized professionals in the industry. Tom Keane joined Microsoft in 1998 as one of the first members of the Windows Azure team. Here, he designed a mixture of highly scalable serverless architectures for cloud services such as Azure Service Bus and Media Services. He then joined Microsoft Research to develop core technologies that would power many products.

These, such as PageRank and interactive navigation systems for Windows 10, before moving back into product development with Visual Studio Server Explorer and CoreFX Runtimes.  In 2014 Tom Keane accepted a role where he set up an engineering team responsible for container orchestration on Windows Azure. He also held senior positions on both Machine Learning Platforms & Frameworks teams within Microsoft’s research organization. At this time, Tom pioneered many of today’s best practices around microservices architectures.

Some of which are still prominent in his current work. Keane’s work on Big Data saw him actively working on a thesis related to Hadoop clusters and data lakes – seeing him become one of their first adopters internally at Microsoft and externally amongst a broad customer base. Tom Keane´s most recent focus has been on building resilient distributed systems by leveraging Kubernetes automation, creating bring-your-own-cluster capability, or even utilizing existing identity software/ access management libraries.

All under his unique ‘Auggie’ project inspired by Ingram Macaulay Microservices Patterns book “Building Applications Using Managed Clusters” leveraging insights from NetflixOSS designs like Chaos Monkey (those random failures). Tom Keane is a Director of Program Management Lead Cloud Center Silicon Valley Unit @ Microsoft. He continues to challenge himself with ever emerging technology landscape, revolutionizing digital transformation experience across multi-devices through changing ecosystem landscape across cloud platforms such as AWS/ Google Cloud Platform / IBM/ Oracle.