Carlos Hinojosa
Software engineer, backend and cloud infrastructure
I build distributed services in the Azure compute control plane at Microsoft, where I was a founding engineer of Azure Standby Pools. On my own time I run Rainshadow, a small studio where AI agents write the code behind tests and review gates I define.
Friends call me Charlie.
Work
Microsoft, Azure Compute
Founding engineer of Azure Standby Pools, which keeps VMs pre-provisioned so scale sets scale out in seconds instead of minutes. Took it from prototype to general availability in every Azure public region. Now on fleet management and VM SKU retirement.
Rainshadow
An AI-native software studio. A plan becomes a graph of small tasks; fresh Claude Code sessions take one each, and automated checks gate every commit. Apps include Tahona, for agave spirits, and Croze, for cocktails.