I work on making Kubernetes cost less to run.

I'm a product manager on Azure Kubernetes Service, covering compute efficiency and agentic operations for Kubernetes clusters. I'm also the product manager for Azure Chaos Studio.

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2026-10-08

The Chaos Studio Workspaces launch demo, on the Microsoft Azure channel. Ashley and I take an empty Workspace to a finished run report. Watch on YouTube

2026-10-08
AKS Skills is now a GitHub Copilot for Azure plugin
My pull request moved the AKS operational skills into GitHub Copilot for Azure. Azure/AKS-Skills is archived.
2026-08-07
Azure/AKS-Skills is public
Seven open-source agent skills for operating and troubleshooting AKS. I led the launch. It passed 100 weekly active users.
2026-07-01
Chaos Studio Workspaces in public preview, with the docs
Announced by Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. I wrote most of the Learn documentation.
2026-06-03
microsoft/chaos-studio on GitHub
The open-source companion repo: a Copilot CLI plugin, an MCP server, and sample apps to break.

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aks · efficiency

Compute efficiency

Getting more useful work from the compute Microsoft already has, so more cores are available for customers. I work on workload sizing, instance selection, and node provisioning across Azure Kubernetes Service and Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

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aks · agentic ops

AI for operating Kubernetes

The AI strategy for agentic operations and troubleshooting on AKS: skills, benchmarks, and the rules for what an agent may touch. I led the public launch of Azure/AKS-Skills on Aug 7, 2026, and it passed 100 weekly active users. On Oct 8 my pull request moved the skills into GitHub Copilot for Azure as an official plugin.

chaos studio

Azure Chaos Studio

Helping teams find out whether their systems survive failure. I am the product manager. The rebuilt platform went to public preview as Chaos Studio Workspaces in July 2026: named outage scenarios instead of hand-built faults.