Julio Casal

About

Developer Productivity / Platform Engineering (DevEx). I design the tooling, workflows, and internal platforms that help .NET teams ship faster with confidence—CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, Azure best practices, cloud-native development, and microservices. Microsoft alum (11 yrs). I now share modern .NET/Azure patterns at juliocasal.com. Previously contributed to Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming and PlayFab teams, developing game streaming and cloud services with technologies like Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, and C#. Committed to empowering teams and individuals through innovative solutions, developer productivity, and platform engineering. Results: shorter lead time for changes, more frequent safe deploys, quicker recovery from issues. Focus: .NET best practices • CI/CD standardization • reproducible local dev • Azure best practices. Stack: .NET, ASP.NET Core, Azure, GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, .NET Aspire.