Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Azure
Recognized by Microsoft for sharing real-world Azure expertise with the community. An independent community award, not a Microsoft role. Read the announcement.
Founder, Code To Cloud · Microsoft MVP (Azure) · CNCF Ambassador
Kevin Evans
I help enterprise and mid-market teams put AI agents into production on Azure and GitHub, on platforms that are governed, observable and built to last.
About
Platforms first. Then AI on top of them.
My work has always been about platforms: building them, architecting cloud platforms on Azure, and now running AI agents on them in production. I spent nearly five years at Microsoft, rising from Azure Customer Engineer to Senior Solutions Engineer and leading cloud and AI platform strategy with enterprise customers, and worked on developer platforms and AI at Cloudflare.
Today I run Code To Cloud, an advisory and engineering practice in the Calgary area, Alberta. With our team, we design, build and run Azure platforms: developer platforms on GitHub and Red Hat OpenShift, secure landing zones, and governed AI agent platforms on Microsoft Foundry, and we modernize the legacy applications they need to reach.
What I believe: when agentic tooling falls apart against a real codebase, the fix is almost never a better model. It is the engineering around it, the context, guardrails, permissions and feedback loops that separate a demo from something you would trust in production.
Focus
Where I spend my time
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AI agent platforms on Azure
Agents on Microsoft Foundry with evaluation gates, identity on every model call, and spend you can trace to what shipped.
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Azure operations and governance
Landing zones, policy, monitoring and cost: the day-two work that decides whether a platform holds up. My MVP award area.
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Agentic DevOps on GitHub
GitHub Copilot, the coding agent and Actions as the delivery backbone, plus modernizing legacy .NET and Java applications.
Recognition
Kevin Evans: awards and certifications
CNCF Ambassador
Recognized by the CNCF for cloud-native community leadership. I also lead Cloud Native Calgary, the CNCF chapter I started in 2023.
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate (Linux Foundation)
Speaking
Talks, workshops and the podcast
I speak about AI agents in production, Azure platforms and agentic DevOps, usually with a live demo. Conferences, user groups, internal engineering days and podcasts are all welcome.
Recent talks
- The Agentic Shift · Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 Why vibe coding is the symptom and agentic engineering is the shift, with a live demo and the guardrails that make it safe.
- One File to Forty · Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 Modernizing a real legacy .NET app live with an AI agent: tests first, containerized, then re-platformed to PostgreSQL.
Read the recap · Slides and demo code
Workshops, events and teaching
- Introduction to Microsoft Foundry · open-source workshop (MIT)Deploy with Bicep, build a versioned agent, gate it with an evaluation. About 60 minutes. Code on GitHub.
- Code To Cloud Summit · CalgaryA full-day cloud, AI and DevOps community conference, run by Code To Cloud. 2026 recap.
- Code To Cloud podcast · hostConversations with builders, with guests including Gene Kim, Solomon Hykes and Bret Fisher. Listen.
- Becoming a Cloud Solutions Architect · O'Reilly course authorA career roadmap for absolute beginners.
Community and open source
Things I build in public
Cloud Native Calgary
The CNCF chapter for Calgary: meetups and workshops for cloud-native engineers.
Azure agentic engineering
Practices for building agentic AI platforms on Azure.
Kodra
An open-source, agentic Azure engineering environment.
Writing
Latest from the Code To Cloud blog
- Kevin Evans Named a Microsoft MVP for Azure
Code To Cloud founder Kevin Evans is now a Microsoft MVP in Azure (Operations & Management). What the award is, who to thank, and what it means for clients.
- How Nonprofits Can Use AI, Websites, and Data
Sarah Wimberley on how an $11,000-budget nonprofit uses AI to review its website, why tangled systems cost more than you think, and three places to start.
- Hey Nova: A Voice Desk Companion for Claude Code
We turned a $40 round AMOLED board into Nova: it shows what Claude Code is doing, speaks up when it needs you, and answers when you say Hey Nova.
- Agent Memory on Azure: Redis or Cosmos DB?
Where should an AI agent's memory and semantic cache live on Azure, Redis or Cosmos DB? What Microsoft documents for each, a rule of thumb, and the risks.
- Foundry Local: Why to Start Your AI Build Here
Foundry Local runs AI models on your own device with no Azure subscription. We ran its quickstart on a Mac in 17 seconds. Why start there, and where it stops.
- AI Skills Navigator: Where a Team Should Start
Microsoft's AI Skills Navigator puts Microsoft, LinkedIn Learning and GitHub training in one place. What it has, how to use it, and what it can't tell you.
Work with Kevin Evans
Putting AI agents into production on Azure and GitHub? Start with a discovery call through Code To Cloud.