About
Carl Bender is a Senior Director at Microsoft leading Cloud & AI Platform Solution Engineering. He heads a high-performing team of Solution Engineers who demonstrate the value of Microsoft Azure to the largest Healthcare Providers and Payors in the United States.
Overseeing presales engagement across the full Azure stack — Data & AI, Application Innovation, and Infrastructure — Carl drives cross-functional collaboration that delivers innovative cloud solutions, enhancing operational efficiency and patient outcomes.
Full-Stack Platform
Intelligent Solutions
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Solution Engineering
Focus
Leading a high-performing team of Solution Engineers serving the largest US healthcare providers & payors.
Presales engagement across Azure's full Data & AI portfolio — from analytics to Azure OpenAI.
Cloud-native application modernization and platform engineering for healthcare workloads.
Azure infrastructure solutions — networking, compute, identity, and hybrid environments.
Fostering collaboration across engineering, sales, and product to drive innovative outcomes.
Enhancing operational efficiency and patient outcomes through transformative cloud technology.
Public Work
Practical AI experiences, security-minded fixes, and developer tooling—shared where the work can be inspected.
Public profile snapshot • July 2026
crbender / voice-agent-for-patient-access
An executive-ready patient access demo combining a deterministic 90-second story with optional Azure OpenAI Realtime voice, governed handoffs, action packets, and mock scheduling.
Personal demo. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Microsoft.
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