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Azhar Abbasi

@azharabbasi

Senior .NET Application Architect and full-stack engineer delivering scalable Microsoft-stack platforms with Clean Architecture and DDD.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for an enterprise role where I can own architecture and deliver on the Microsoft stack—building secure, scalable platforms in Azure/Kubernetes with Clean Architecture, strong engineering standards, and thoughtful use of AI tooling.

I’m a .NET Application Architect and Full-Stack Engineer with 23+ years building enterprise systems on the Microsoft stack. I specialize in C#, .NET 6/7/8, ASP.NET Core, and microservices, using Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to deliver maintainable, scalable platforms.

I’ve led engineering teams of up to 12 across 5+ enterprise programs, balancing hands-on delivery with architecture ownership, mentoring, and stakeholder management. I focus on measurable outcomes—performance, security, and delivery velocity—using production-proven cloud and infrastructure practices across Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform IaC.

Recently, I architected a Sitecore-to-Contentful headless migration across 20+ web properties by decomposing a monolith into 12+ microservices on Azure AKS. I design robust CI/CD with quality gates, and I use today’s AI developer tooling (Cursor, Claude, and Copilot) daily for architecture reviews, refactoring, and prototyping—adopting it thoughtfully without compromising code quality or security.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior .NET Architect

Current

Array Inc

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)

Architected a Sitecore-to-Contentful headless migration across 20+ web properties, decomposing a monolithic .NET MVC platform into 12+ Azure AKS microservices using Clean Architecture and DDD. Delivered IaC and CI/CD improvements with ARM/Terraform and Azure DevOps, cutting environment provisioning time from 2 days to under 45 minutes and reducing hotfix frequency by an estimated 40–50%.

C++ASP.NET MVC Azure Terraform Azure DevOps Microservices Clean Architecture

Senior .NET Architect

Ørsted Services

Apr 2019 - Aug 2023 (4 years 4 months)

Defined enterprise architecture standards across 4 .NET delivery streams, mentoring 15+ engineers and owning the quarterly technical roadmap. Architected headless .NET + Next.js solutions and migrated legacy ASP.NET MVC monoliths to API-first microservices, improving page load performance by an estimated 35–50% and reducing API response time from ~800ms to under 250ms via AKS adoption, Terraform I

.NET ASP.NET MVC Next.js Microservices Terraform Redis Performance Tuning

Team Lead .NET Engineer

Pentius Management, LLC

May 2013 - Apr 2019 (5 years 11 months)

Led a distributed team of 8 engineers across 3 time zones delivering ASP.NET MVC portals, Web APIs, and CMS-driven e-commerce solutions. Built reusable Sitecore JSS/SXA component libraries that accelerated new landing-page delivery by an estimated ~40%, and introduced Azure DevOps practices to replace manual shipping with automated builds and infrastructure scripting.

ASP.NET MVC Web APIs Sitecore JSS Azure DevOps CI CD Team Leadership REST APIs SQL Server Sitecore Jss

Senior .NET Developer

Knowledge Platform

Apr 2007 - Nov 2015 (8 years 7 months)

Managed a team of 10–12 .NET developers delivering SaaS e-learning platforms using ASP.NET, SQL Server, and SharePoint. Delivered Ultrabot LMS, which earned Brandon Hall Gold and Silver excellence awards, and built enterprise portals integrating SharePoint, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and custom workflow engines.

ASP.NET .NET SQL Server T SQL SharePoint SaaS E Learning Workflows Team Management

Project Manager/Developer

Jin Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 2003 - Jan 2007 (4 years)

Led ACUMEN Book and DigitalPublisher, desktop and web publishing/content-management products built on the Microsoft stack. Developed Virtual Desktop Visualizer, a cross-platform thin-client remote desktop controller in C/C++.

Project Management C C++Thin Clients Desktop Applications Web Publishers Content Management