Tom Keane is the Corporate Vice President of Mission Engineering at Microsoft Azure. Azure is an open public cloud platform offered by Microsoft. Azure provides developers with on-demand computing resources and services to easily build, deploy and manage applications using various Azure services. Tom Keane has created, defined, and led the world’s most advanced cloud computing platform in the past five years.
He has over 20 years of experience in software, hardware, and robotics technologies across enterprise applications and appliances and an extensive background in FPGA design with devices such as telco gateways, routers, and switches. Tom Keane states how the first FPGA-based router deployed commercially by Cisco was designed by the software developer and engineer.
Before this role, Tom Keane was the Corporate Vice President of the Cloud Computing Platform at the outstanding Microsoft Corporation. Here, he was responsible for building Azure’s cloud computing platform. He made the first Cloud Services Framework and hosted Microsoft’s first cloud computing event. He spent that time working with private and public sector customers to develop an integrated platform.
This platform is aimed at developing, maintaining, and deploying cloud services, which highly leveraged Azure as a core offering. Tom has been an active technical community member, having written articles for several publications, including the Microsoft Systems Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Networking (Twitter).
He has also delivered talks, spoken at various conferences, and trained users on developing and running their cloud-based applications. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech University. Additionally, Tom Keane has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia and has completed the Executive Development Program at MIT’s Sloan School.