Asim Hussain

Green Cloud Advocacy Lead, Microsoft

Asim is the Green Cloud Advocacy Lead at Microsoft and is responsible for advocating to, and on-behalf of, the global audience of climate-conscious technologists. He investigates best practices for building green sustainable applications on the cloud and innovative techniques of advocacy that cause less harm to the environment.

Previously, he lead Cloud Advocacy for EMEA at Microsoft and freelanced for various companies including Google. He began his career at the European Space Agency in their mission control centre in Germany, launching rockets.

He is also the Chairperson and an Executive Director at Green Software Foundation, a non-profit with the mission to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for building green software.