I own and build the developer experience across Azure services, including ACA Sandboxes, AI Gateway, App Service, Functions, Connectors, Hosted Skills, and Durable Task Scheduler. I do this as a Member of Technical Staff on Microsoft's CoreAI team.
Building and learning is my favorite. I build daily. Right now I'm deep in AI agents, connecting LLMs in Foundry to real enterprise workflows through M365, Azure Functions, and the Copilot SDK. Check out this frontier agent running in m365 inbox and teams, doing your custom automations.
I'm also passionate about building a team that loves what they do. I invest heavily in my people's growth and in using our own tools to make ourselves more productive. I'm a big advocate to always be building or ABB!
- 🎨 Canvases — releasing an all-new developer experience
- ⚙️ Azure CLI extension for AI Gateway (
az aigateway) - 🧰 Azure Skills for Copilot — AI skills that help developers build, deploy, and operate on Azure
- ⚡ Azure Developer CLI (azd) — the fastest path from code to cloud
- 🧩 Dapr Quickstarts — hands-on guides for building microservices with Dapr (CNCF graduated)
- LOTS of serverless agents: English/markdown/m365/Teams, Python, TypeScript, .NET
- 🚀 Bringing Azure's canvas marketplace to production: three plugins shipped
- 🔭 Working on Gateways, Models, MCP tools, Connectors, agent skills, and making serverless + AI feel like one cohesive thing
- 🌱 Learning agent loops, skills authoring, and vibe coding (yes, I stay up late building)
- ⚡ Fun fact: I love skiing and I play guitar, and I'm in a Grateful Dead phase right now
- :) Removing em-dashes from slop!
📫 @paulyuki99 on Twitter 🔗 Paul Yuknewicz on LinkedIn