Pittsburgh, PA

Mitch Martin

AI Apps Solution Engineer at Microsoft

I help enterprise teams shape AI-powered applications on Azure: designing the architecture, proving it out with hands-on proofs of concept, and building the case to invest. I've been the engineer, the support, the seller, and the account lead, so I look at every problem from each seat at the table.

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What I work on

Agentic & generative AI

Turning AI ideas into solid designs and working proofs of concept tied to verifiable business outcomes and ROI, with a clear path to production.

Cloud-native architecture

Designing applications on Azure's app and integration platform that scale with demand, stay available through failures, and keep costs in line, so the business can move fast on a foundation that holds up.

Agentic SDLC & DevSecOps

Increasing developer productivity with AI agents across the software lifecycle, allowing teams to implement hypervelocity engineering to deliver more value, faster, with security built in.

App modernization & cloud transformation

Turning aging application portfolios into a modern foundation: less maintenance and risk, faster delivery, and a clear runway for AI.

Experience

My career has run from enterprise digital transformation to the trucking industry and back. I started as a full-stack engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific, helping move legacy monoliths to cloud microservices and carrying the 24/7 production pager. At Branding Brand I built mobile and web commerce apps for dozens of the biggest brick-and-mortar retailers.

Then I crossed over to the business side. I ran my own book of freight as an independent logistics account executive, working with Fortune 500 shippers, the DoD, and FEMA, and became the first sales engineer at Idelic, a machine-learning startup serving trucking fleets.

Since 2021 I've been at Microsoft. I started in customer success and cloud solution architecture, helping some of the largest enterprises run and modernize their application portfolios in production. Now, as an AI Apps Solution Engineer, I work at the front of that journey: designing architectures, running proofs of concept, and helping customers commit to building with generative and agentic AI.

11 years across software engineering, sales, account management, and customer success

  1. MicrosoftAI Apps Solution Engineer
  2. IdelicSoftware Sales Engineer
  3. R&R ExpressLogistics Account Executive
  4. Branding BrandMobile Software Developer
  5. Thermo Fisher ScientificWeb Engineer, Full-Stack

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • GitHub Copilot

Education

University of Pittsburgh
B.S., Information Science, 2015

Off the clock

I like building things with my hands as much as with a keyboard. When I'm away from the screen you'll usually find me hunting, fishing, welding, or riding dirt bikes.