Boris Scholl is a lead product architect with the Azure Compute engineering team focusing on the next generation of distributed systems platforms and application models. He has been working on Azure Developer tools and platforms in various product engineering roles since late 2011. Boris re-joined the Azure Compute team in 2018 after having spent 18 months outside Microsoft leading an engineering team to work on a microservices platform based on Kubernetes and service meshes. His work on distributed systems platforms has resulted in several patents about cloud computing and distributed systems. Boris is a frequent speaker at industry events, a contributor to many blogs, instructor for distributed computing topics, and the lead author of one of the first books about microservices and Docker on Azure (Microservices with Docker on Azure O'Reilly 2016).
