Daniel Jump
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Jump is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Redmond with a track record of modernizing large C++ codebases and developer workflows at Microsoft, operating across a codebase measured in the hundreds of millions of lines. He combines deep hands-on C++ expertise with tooling and scripting skills in Perl, Python, and libclang to drive safe refactors, developer education, and scalable engineering tools. Daniel has practical experience across Windows-native APIs and cross-platform ecosystems (C++/WinRT, Win32, Xcode) and has contributed to notable open-source infrastructure work such as cleaning up MSVC compiler warnings in the ICU internationalization library. With a foundation in computer science and physics from Eastern Washington University and nearly three decades of industry experience, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams as he is diving into compiler-level code quality improvements.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Physics, BS, Computer Science, Physics at Eastern Washington University
Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
icu4c10
c-language10
cpp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/icu
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
The home of the ICU project source code.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 112 reviews, 31 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on improving the codebase by addressing compiler warnings. They cleaned up numerous MSVC W3 and W4 warnings across the common and i18n projects within the ICU4C library. The changes involved modifying code in files like `rbnf.cpp`, adding a macro, and refactoring various areas of the code to ensure code quality and maintainability.
cppc-plus-plusicu4cunicode-consortiumicu4j
daniel-ju/icu
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
:construction: WIP new home of ICU :construction: -:warning: WARNING: The repo will be rebased in the future!
Contributions:13 PRs, 20 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
wipicu
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