Marcus Fontoura

About The Author

Marcus Fontoura is currently in his second tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, where he works as CTO for Azure Core.

Most recently, he was the CTO at Stone (2022-2025), where he led the engineering organization, focused on building highly efficient financial platforms and an amazing engineering culture. He continues to serve as an advisor to the company.

Previously, in his first tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft (2013-2022), Marcus worked as the chief architect for Azure Compute and led the Azure efficiency team. Marcus also had posts at Google, Yahoo, and IBM Research.

Books by Marcus Fontoura

A Platform Mindset

My lessons from developer to CTO

By Marcus Fontoura
A Platform Mindset is a leadership book that shows how organizations can unlock scale and innovation by combining long-term platform investments with a culture of collaboration, trust, and shared purpose.
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Human Agency in a Digital World

Understand technology and make it work for you

By Marcus Fontoura
This may be the first true AI-era self-help book—not because we need help using technology, but because we need help using it well. It's about building the knowledge—and the confidence—to question, to evaluate, to choose. Because understanding how algorithms work is the first step in making su...
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