Mark Brown · Product & team leadership
I lead product teams, grow people, and connect platform strategy with developer adoption.
I'm a Principal PM Manager on Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, leading teams responsible for Microsoft Fabric integration and developer experience and adoption.
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Product, adoption, and people
Product
I lead teams responsible for Cosmos DB's Microsoft Fabric integration, lead control-plane feature areas for managing and securing its resources, and influence direction and roadmaps across engineering. My AI work includes contributions to vector search, full-text search, and agent memory.
Adoption
I work with developer relations to turn product capabilities into reference architectures, demos, and workshops, and channel developer feedback into product decisions. I partner with marketing on go-to-market strategy, campaigns, and events. I also built content creation and publishing engines so the broader PM team could better connect with customers and drive adoption.
People
I mentor product and engineering colleagues beyond my own team, helping them grow into senior and principal roles across Microsoft.
Career breadth
My engineering roots underpin product and team leadership across Azure Networking and Cosmos DB. At Solliance, I worked with customers as a cloud architect; my Microsoft career also spans developer marketing, evangelism, and community.
Supporting work
A few hands-on examples from my product and community work.
Notes from practice
I just retired my old WordPress site and rebuilt markjbrown.com as a static Jekyll site hosted on GitHub Pages. The old site had been on Azure App Service for years and was quietly costing me money to host content I w...