As A Product Architect, his role is to shape the look and feel of the Microsoft private cloud at Rackspace, including Hyper-V, cloud platform, and azure stack. As a 7-year veteran of Rackspace, Sterling has worked with a variety of technologies in different roles. As a Systems Engineer he helped manage several large hybrid server deployments with technologies such as Microsoft SQL server and VMware. As a Product Architect, he assisted with the launch of two new Microsoft product offerings, Fanatical Support for Hyper-V and Cloud Platform as well as Fanatical Support for Microsoft Azure.