Dave Burnison

Senior Enterprise Advocate - GitHub

Dave is a Senior Enterprise Advocate on the GitHub & Azure DevOps Teams. He is very passionate about DevOps and application modernization. He is a link between the product group and customers. Dave joined Microsoft in January 2016. He has spent time as a consultant and in technical sales prior to joining the product group. He has been focused on DevOps the entire time. Dave has worked in the software development industry his entire career. Having worked for both startups and large companies, his strength is his view and knowledge of the overall software development lifecycle paired with technical skills which allow him to manage DevOps culture, processes & tools that enable software development teams to become as innovative, efficient and productive as possible. In 2022 Dave was awarded the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center’s (EBC) Distinguished Speaker award. Distinguished Speaker is the highest achievement Microsoft has at the EBC. This award recognizes speakers who embody all attributes of EBC and customer engagement best practices. See http://aka.ms/DaveBurnison2022EBCAward