Sam is a regular keynote speaker at many conferences including DevOps Enterprise Summit and Agile. He is the author of four books on software engineering. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Sam was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, subsequently IBM.">With 30 years’ industry experience in leading software teams, Sam acts as the chief customer advocate, responsible for strategy of the next releases of these products, focusing on DevOps, Agile and CI/CD Pipelines.

Sam curates the website, DevOps at Microsoft. He is a regular keynote speaker at many conferences including DevOps Enterprise Summit and Agile. He is the author of four books on software engineering. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Sam was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, subsequently IBM.

He recently retired from Microsoft.