Brendan Burns

Brendan Burns is corporate vice president at Microsoft, where he is responsible for Azure management and governance, Azure Arc, Kubernetes on Azure, Linux on Azure, and PowerShell. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at Google in the Google Cloud Platform, where he cofounded the Kubernetes project and helped build APIs like Deployment Manager and Cloud DNS. Before working on cloud, he worked on Google's web-search infrastructure, with a focus on low-latency indexing. He has a PhD in computer science...See more

Brendan Burns is corporate vice president at Microsoft, where he is responsible for Azure management and governance, Azure Arc, Kubernetes on Azure, Linux on Azure, and PowerShell. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at Google in the Google Cloud Platform, where he cofounded the Kubernetes project and helped build APIs like Deployment Manager and Cloud DNS. Before working on cloud, he worked on Google's web-search infrastructure, with a focus on low-latency indexing. He has a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a specialty in Robotics. He lives in Seattle with his wife Robin Sanders, their two children and cat, Mrs. Paws, who rules over their household with an iron paw. See less