Jorge Palma

Jorge Palma is a Principal Product Manager for AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) at Microsoft where he has worked since starting as a Junior PM and helped the service become the fastest-growing service in the history of Azure. Formerly he was the Technical Lead for App Dev and DevOps with the Azure Global Black Belt team and has implemented and architected solutions in Azure since 2012, spanning different roles from Services, Tech Evangelism, and Tech Sales.

Jorge holds an MSc in Computer Engineering and has a mix of Dev and Ops backgrounds having worked as a full-stack developer before moving to a system administrator and later to a DevOps engineer role prior to joining Microsoft. He has founded two startups with a successful exits throughout his career and has a passion for helping organizations and individuals grow and succeed by leveraging the cloud and Kubernetes.