By Lisa Stiffler
Publication Date: 2026-06-12 17:31:00
— Microsoft technical fellow Marcus Fontoura is leaving the company after serving as Azure Core’s chief technology officer for more than a year. During that time he also published A Platform Mindset, a book exploring how to build scalable systems and effective teams.
Fontoura had an earlier eight-year run at Microsoft, where he worked as a technical fellow in Azure and as a partner architect for Bing before departing in 2022 to join fintech company Stone as CTO and head of engineering. Prior to…