AUTHOR

Kirk Davis

I am a long-time techie based in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve been a v- employee at Microsoft (i.e., contractor/vendor) where I first started building on .NET in 2001, and spent almost 9 years at AWS, where I was a Principal Solutions Architect on the Microsoft platform team. I’m now the Director of Cloud Services at Evolve, helping customers modernize off of Windows and SQL Server. The one constant throughout is that I love traveling, learning new tech, and meeting new people.
AWS, Modernization, SQL Server

Background When a large consulting customer decided to modernize the database tier of their flagship platform, the scope was

AWS, Microsoft Licensing, Modernization

📰From Portfolio to Plan in Weeks: Evolve Launches AWS-Funded Application Modernization Assessment (AMA) MESA, AZ — April 2026 —

AWS, Modernization, Uncategorized

A Brief History of Porting .NET Framework to modern .NET Pre-generative-AI tools and librariesModernizing legacy .NET Framework applications to