Recognition

Awards, judging, and the rooms I get invited into.

Recognition earned outside my day job — from Microsoft to hackathon stages to academic peer review.

Awards & honors
MVP
Microsoft MVP, Azure PaaS
Awarded 2026 for community contributions in Azure platform engineering and developer tooling.
IEEE
IEEE Senior Member
Peer-nominated grade held by fewer than 10% of IEEE members worldwide. Confirmed 2025.
GWR
Guinness World Records™ title attempt
Badge-verified participant, Microsoft AI Skills Fest official Guinness World Records™ attempt.
Judge & peer reviewer

Invited to evaluate the work of others across industry awards, global hackathons, and an academic conference — seven distinct programs to date.

2026
Judge, AI Excellence Awards
Business Intelligence Group — scoring nominated products and teams across the AI industry.
2026 & 2025
Judge, Technovation Girls
Gold Judge (2026) and Silver Judge (2025) for the global girls' AI & entrepreneurship competition.
2025
Tech Judge, Claro Awards
Verified judge application, completed all assigned technology-category evaluations.
2025
Peer Reviewer, WITS 2025 & 2026
Reviewed submitted research papers as an invited reviewer for the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems.
2025
Judge, Herizon & VTHacks
Invited judge for two collegiate hackathons, evaluating team submissions and live demos.
2025
Judge, United Hacks V6
Certified judge for the United Hacks student hackathon series.
Membership
Research Data Alliance

Member of the international research-data community connecting researchers, engineers, and data professionals worldwide.

Microsoft Q&A
10,000+ reputation · 378+ threads

Top 9 of 27 leaderboard champions on the Azure board — the community work behind the MVP award.

Speaking
2026
Software Architecture Conference

Confirmed speaking slot, live-streamed session, and speaker certificate.

See speaker page →
2026
Cloud Champion, CSP

Recognized speaker, with a formal recognition letter and event promotion.

Full speaking history on Sessionize →