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Marcus Fontoura

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Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

🇧🇷 Brazilian

Fontoura shaped Azure across two Microsoft tenures, serving as chief architect for Azure Compute, leading its efficiency work, and later returning as Technical Fellow and CTO of Azure Core. After senior leadership roles, he joined Anthropic in June 2026 for hands-on AI infrastructure work. He also led engineering as Stone's CTO.

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Background

Current role
Member of Technical Staff Jun 2026-present
Previously
Jan 2025-Jun 2026Technical Fellow and CTO, Azure Core,
Jun 2022-Jan 2025CTO and Head of Engineering,
2013-2022Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President; Chief Architect, Azure Compute,
2011-2013Staff Research Scientist,
2005-2010Principal Research Scientist,
2000-2005Research Staff Member,
1999-2000Postdoctoral Researcher,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 18, 2026

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