I'm a Computer Systems Engineer with 15+ years in tech, currently Director of Developer Audience at Microsoft, leading Go-To-Market strategy for GitHub and Azure. I'm a developer, blogger, speaker, and content creator who loves sharing about open source, cloud, DevOps, AI, and helping people grow.

• 🌎 Born and raised in Costa Rica 🇨🇷, now living in Orlando, Florida 🇺🇸
• 🗣️ I speak Spanish (native), English (advanced) and Portuguese (limited) — and so does this profile!
• 🎓 Microsoft Certified Trainer & former MVP, currently pursuing a Master's in Systems Engineering at UCF
• 🤖 Focused on the AI Agentic Era: GitHub Copilot, agentic DevOps, and developer productivity
• 💬 Ask me about Azure, GitHub, DevOps, .NET, and building developer communities

My mission: Helping people to build the most innovative solutions with technology. 🚀

• Focused on enhancing my personal website with new features and optimizations in the dsanchezcr/website repo.
• Contributed a PR to the Azure-Samples/DevOpsEngineerPersona project to improve examples for cloud-focused workflows.
• Staying inspired by Azure, GitHub, and AI as I refine code and support projects that create impact.

💡 Tip: Use GitHub Actions to automate your CI/CD pipelines. Create a .github/workflows/ci.yml file and define jobs to build, test, and deploy your app, ensuring consistent quality and faster delivery with every commit.

📈 Detailed metrics (3D calendar, languages & habits)

• Mastering Generative AI: The Architecture of a System of Intelligence
• DevOps Foundations for the AI Agentic Era (Microsoft Reactor Webinar)
• Building mobile and device apps in the agentic era: a practical guide to native, MAUI, React Native, and more
• Do full IDEs still deserve a seat at the table in the AI era?
• Security and compliance in agentic workflows: the governance layer teams are missing

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• 📺 DevOps Foundations for the AI Agentic Era
• 📺 Unlock DevSecOps: The Power of GitHub's Advanced Security Suite
• 📺 DevOps practices for Azure Cosmos DB
• 📺 From code to Cloud in a secure way with GitHub Advanced Security
• 📺 Create a Simple Website with Azure Static Web Apps and VS Code

• 🗣️ My upcoming and recent talks will appear here automatically. See my speaker profile →

Have a question about my work, talks, projects, or experience? Ask my AI twin — an agent powered by GitHub Models that answers as me, right here in GitHub Issues.

Want to connect your own AI agent to my content? An MCP server that exposes my blog, projects and talks is on the way — so any agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, etc.) can answer questions about me.

A little easter egg powered by my own open-source package @dsanchezcr/colonesexchangerate 🇨🇷

🇨🇷 Costa Rica exchange rate — updated 2026-06-23

• 💵 1 USD = ₡456.50 (sale) · ₡452.10 (purchase)
• 💶 1 EUR = ₡522.01

_{Powered by my own package @dsanchezcr/colonesexchangerate}

When I'm not building or speaking, you'll find me:

• 🖨️ 3D printing and designing things to print
• 🏠 Tinkering with home automation & IoT
• 🎮 Gaming — my gamertag is dsanchezcr (add me on PC or Xbox!)
• 🎬 Movies, 🪄 Universal & 🏰 Disney parks, and 💪 staying healthy (down ~100 lbs and counting)