Founder, Azure Innovation Station
Who Am I?
Frankie Riviera
I'm Frankie Riviera, founder of Azure Innovation Station.
From 2021 to 2024 I worked at Microsoft as an app modernization specialist for large U.S. healthcare and life sciences companies. I helped them move and rebuild software on Azure, and I brought GitHub and AI tools to their developers.
Since leaving Microsoft in January 2024, I have grown Azure Innovation Station on YouTube from 20 to 13,000+ subscribers. Microsoft named me a Microsoft MVP for Azure in 2024 and renewed the award in 2026 with Microsoft Foundry added.
Today I build websites, AI agents, and automations for businesses, and I train teams to build their own.
At Microsoft
- I led a national healthcare company's move off Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Azure before a $1.5M renewal came due, saving it $700K a year in support costs.
- I helped a $2.25B revenue cycle management company put all 643 of its engineers on GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Copilot in 2023.
- I opened a national healthcare company's developer conference with a GitHub Copilot talk. Attendees installed Copilot the next day, and the company asked me back for about 300 developers and data scientists.
Since Microsoft
- Microsoft MVP for Azure and Microsoft Foundry
- 13,000+ YouTube subscribers and 1.3 million views
- 2,000+ members in my free Azure community
- Got a Microsoft Foundry Python SDK bug fixed the next day by reporting it to the Foundry product team through the MVP program
I help businesses and professionals build solutions, solve problems, and make more money with Microsoft Azure.
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