Shawn Cicoria is a principal engineering leader at Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering group, where he focuses on distributed systems along with cloud and AI/ML solutions. He has authored many books and technical posts for Microsoft’s ISE Developer Blog and maintains active open-source work on GitHub. Beyond industry, he has taught computer science at Pace University and has spoken publicly about NJIT’s M.S. in Data Science program. Lately, his writing has highlighted modern observability practices with OpenTelemetry.

Shawn is a cloud engineer and architect known for working in high scale distributed systems. He has held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft, Avanade, State Street Bank, UBS (fka Swiss Bank Corporation), an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Ranger, Agile and Scrum Leader, and now in Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft.

He co-authored Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation (Apress, 2007), contributing chapters on WCF security, reliability, transactions, and interoperability—work cited widely in developer literature.

Shawn is an expert in modern authentication and authorization implementation, security, federation for cloud native platforms, apps and systems integration.

Shawn Cicoria completed a PhD at Pace University in 2017 on Risks and Patterns in Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Platforms, reflecting a sustained focus on cloud architecture and modernization.

Beyond writing and research, he appears in community and industry venues—for example, a Microsoft/Angelbeat testimonial video and a 2020 NJIT highlight featuring remarks on the M.S. in Data Science program.

Today, his public work emphasizes hands-on engineering across AI/ML, data, and cloud-native systems, alongside open-source contributions.

Publications

Here’s the list of all publications currently shown on Shawn Cicoria’s Google Scholar profile

Publications by Shawn Cicoria

1. Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation. Implementing SOA Interoperability.
   C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — Apress, 2007 (Google Scholar)
2. Classification of Titanic passenger data and chances of surviving the disaster
   S Cicoria, J Sherlock, M Muniswamaiah, L Clarke — Proceedings of Student–Faculty Research Day, CSIS, 1–6, 2014 (Google Scholar)
3. Several Emerging Information Technology Topics and Related Doctoral Dissertation Ideas
   S Cicoria, J Sherlock, M Muniswamaiah, L Clarke, G Crocetti, M Coakley — Seidenberg School of CSIS, Pace University, White Plains, New York, D1.1–D1.8, 2014 (Google Scholar)
4. IDEO and Design Thinking as an Agile Innovation Practice
   S Cicoria, J Sherlock, L Clarke, M Muniswamaiah, 2013 (Google Scholar)
5. Software Data Masking for Showcasing Programming Skills
   G Young, N Semple, S Cicoria, S Kirk, S Feddock — CSIS.PACE.EDU, 2022 (Google Scholar)
6. Open Source Software Opportunities and Risks (arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11697, 2018)
   J Sherlock, M Muniswamaiah, L Clarke, S Cicoria, 2018 (Google Scholar)
7. Classification of Titanic passenger data and chances of surviving the disaster (arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09851, 2018)
   J Sherlock, M Muniswamaiah, L Clarke, S Cicoria, 2018 (Google Scholar)
8. Qualitative Analysis of Application Migration to the Public Cloud and Framework for Application Architecture Migration Risks
   S Cicoria — Pace University, 2017 (Google Scholar)
9. Open Source Software Opportunities and Risks (earlier version, 2012)
   S Cicoria, J Sherlock, L Clarke, M Muniswamaiah, 2012 (Google Scholar)
10. Introducing Service‑Oriented Architecture
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation, pp. 3‑24, 2007 (Google Scholar)
11. Hosting and Consuming WCF Services
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF, pp. 145–177, 2007 (Google Scholar)
12. Review of Barriers for Federated Identity Adoption for Users and Organizations
    J Sherlock, M Muniswamaiah, L Clarke, S Cicoria — arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06152, 2018 (Google Scholar)
13. Software Data Masking for Showcasing Programming Skills (Proceedings of Research Day, 2014)
    S Young, G., Semple, N., Cicoria, S., Kirk, S., & Feddock — 2014 (Google Scholar)
14. Agile Approach to the DPS Dissertation Process Time‑To‑Degree: Traditional vs. Agile
    S Cicoria, J Sherlock, L Clarke, M Muniswamaiah — 2013 (Google Scholar)
15. Using Transactions in WCF
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF, pp. 277–299, 2007 (Google Scholar)
16. Implementing Reliable Messaging and Queue‑Based Communications
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF, pp. 249–275, 2007 (Google Scholar)
17. Installing and Creating WCF Services
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF, pp. 99–143, 2007 (Google Scholar)
18. Implementing WCF Security
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF, pp. 213–247, 2007 (Google Scholar)
19. Working with Data
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF, pp. 335–370, 2007 (Google Scholar)
20. Integrating with COM+
    C Peiris, D Mulder, S Cicoria, A Bahree, N Pathak — in Pro WCF, pp. 301–334, 2007 (Google Scholar)

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