Brian Jones
Vice President Microsoft Excel Forms Office Platform
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBrian Jones is a seasoned technology executive who has spent 25 years building the platforms behind Microsoft Office and Excel, now leading Excel, Forms, and the Office Extensibility Platform as a Vice President. With 17 years in senior roles at Microsoft, he combines deep product and program management expertise with hands-on technical stewardship of cross-platform features like co-authoring, data types, LAMBDA, and AI-driven insights. He has a track record of growing geo-distributed teams across Redmond, Israel, Hyderabad, Beijing and driving both developer and end-user platform strategies including the Office Store and Microsoft Graph APIs. Known for bridging standards and implementation, he helped drive Open XML through ECMA and ISO processes while serving as a public-facing advocate for the work. Based in Austin, he brings an electrical engineering foundation and a persistent interest in programming languages to inform platform and developer experience decisions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who balances large-scale product vision with attention to extensibility and community adoption.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of WashingtonAnacortes High Schoolkubasaki high school
Stackoverflow
1,427reputation
151kreached
22answers
6questions
php
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
nix10
vim10
gorilla10
backend10
data-driven10
cloud-files10
nixos10
linux10
emacs10
golang10
rust10
nixpkgs10
cookie10
filesystem10
redis10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
boj/goenet
Mar 2013 - Oct 2014
A Go wrapper for the C based ENet UDP network library.
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 7 months
golangenetnetworkingudp
boj/ruby-perlin
Feb 2009 - Nov 2012
Contributions:12 commits in 3 years 9 months
perlin-noisec-modulerubynoiseperlin
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.