David Tesar
Product manager, Public Speaker, and Father in North Bend, WA, USA
David Tesar
Product manager, Public Speaker, and Father in North Bend, WA, USA
Shipping cloud products that scale to millions of users globally.
Senior Product Manager with 20+ years driving cloud-native product strategy at Microsoft. I specialize in Kubernetes, platform engineering, and DevOps, helping enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and deliver measurable business impact.
Key Achievements:
- Drove 240% increase in Azure Kubernetes Service (CAPZ) customer adoption
- Accelerated release velocity by 267% for OSS secure supply chain products
- Shaped Microsoft's GitOps strategy and contributed to Gartner Magic Quadrant positioning
- Grew TechNet Edge platform to 2M+ monthly visits
Core Expertise: Product Management | Kubernetes | AKS | EKS | GKE | Platform Engineering | DevOps | GitOps | ArgoCD | Flux | MLOps | Cloud-Native Architecture | Open Source Software | CI/CD | Infrastructure as Code | Secure Supply Chain
Outside of work you can find David spending time with his family and enjoying action sports like snowboarding, wakeboarding, mountain biking, and rock climbing.