About Philip Laussermair

Global Lead Architect, Azure Managed Redis

Aug 2026 – Present

Lead Azure Managed Redis technical strategy across Redis, Microsoft, and strategic customers.

• Microsoft partnership: Align product, engineering, and field teams on customer requirements, adoption barriers, and shared decisions.
• Product priorities: Turn capacity, identity, networking, provisioning, and resiliency blockers into product requests with clear impact and ownership.
• Field enablement: Equip Redis account teams to take over AMR opportunities from specialists through qualification guidance, technical training, and Microsoft engagement.
• AI architectures: Co-authored Databricks–Redis personalization guidance, with a reference demo sustaining 100,000 events/second at 157 ms p99 end-to-end latency.

Lead Solutions Architect, Azure Managed Redis

Apr 2026 – Aug 2026

Expanded into strategic accounts, migration programs, and Redis–Microsoft enablement.

• Enterprise architecture: Led discovery, architecture reviews, and migration planning across U.S. East, Central, and Canada for estates exceeding 1,000 caches.
• Migration programs: Built Azure Cache for Redis migration guidance to Azure Managed Redis covering capacity, sizing, pricing, compatibility, failover, rollback, and phased cutovers.
• Field alignment: Turned customer requirements into migration playbooks, demos, seller guidance, and product feedback across Redis and Microsoft to resolve adoption barriers.
• Public guidance: Contributed Azure Architecture Center guidance and presented enterprise and AI architectures at Microsoft Build.

Senior Solutions Architect, Azure Managed Redis

Jun 2025 – Apr 2026

Supported early AMR adoption across U.S. East, Central, and Canada.

• Technical evaluation: Assessed enterprise requirements and designed caching, application state, real-time data, and AI architectures.
• Migration planning: Compared Redis service options and migration plans across sizing, performance, availability, and cost.
• Hands-on demos: Published semantic caching, database caching, and real-time feature-serving demos and guidance through Redis and Microsoft.
• Microsoft collaboration: Supported customer evaluations with Microsoft architects and sellers; represented AMR through speaking and customer engagement at Ignite.

Solutions Architect, Senior Consultant

Jan 2023 – Jun 2025

• Platform Architecture: Designed 5 priority features for a FedRAMP-authorized platform serving 25M+ users, using Java, Spring Boot, AWS EKS, and DynamoDB.
• Data Access: Built secure REST APIs handling 20M+ monthly requests across 10B+ records.
• Modernization: Won CIO approval for modernizing a 40-year-old fraud/compliance platform, aligning 100+ stakeholders.

Site Reliability Engineer, Consultant

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

• Reliability: Maintained 99.99% peak uptime through Kubernetes autoscaling, health checks, and operational readiness.

Technical Writer, Analyst

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

• Technical Writing: Delivered technical writing and implementation support for mission-critical public-sector modernization.