Daniel Jurek
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Jurek is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building and automating large-scale engineering systems, currently focused on validating and releasing the Azure SDK across six major languages. At Microsoft he designs release pipelines, test harnesses, and tooling that let product teams ship confidently, and his work spans DevOps, backend, full-stack, and automation engineering. He has contributed to high-profile Azure open-source projects—helping modernize SDKs, improve installers, and harden CI/CD for azure-sdk-for-python, azure-dev, and azure-sdk-for-js/.NET/Java. Previously he co-founded and scaled MailLift’s platform that shipped millions of handwritten notes and led product and infrastructure work across startups and enterprise SaaS in cloud-native environments. Comfortable across C#, Java, Python, JS, and infrastructure-as-code, he blends pragmatic engineering with release discipline and a knack for turning messy validation matrices into repeatable automation. A less obvious thread through his career is strong cross-team collaboration: he routinely pulls together product, portal, and performance teams to create scalable test labs and measurable observability.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management of Information/Decision Systems, BS, Management of Information/Decision Systems at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (57)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-dev
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A developer CLI that reduces the time it takes to get started on Azure. The Azure Developer CLI (azd) provides developer-friendly commands that map to key workflow stages: code, build, deploy, monitor, repeat.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:265 reviews, 82 commits, 274 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the infrastructure and build/release aspects of the Azure Developer CLI project. They focused on improving the installation and uninstallation processes across different operating systems by modifying the PowerShell and shell scripts. The user also implemented testing for the MSI installer on Windows and automated the Homebrew publishing process. Furthermore, they worked on CI/CD pipeline configuration using GitHub Actions and addressed code quality issues related to Bicep linting, and made changes related to documentation.
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Azure/azure-sdk-for-js
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for JavaScript (NodeJS & Browser). For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/javascript/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-js.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:126 reviews, 159 commits, 207 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions span across feature enhancements, testing, and infrastructure improvements within the Azure SDK for JavaScript repository. They implemented new data types, updated package versions for smoke tests, and addressed issues related to exit codes in build processes. Additionally, the user added utilities to change versions, test resource provisioning scripts, and configured smoke tests, indicating involvement in both development and DevOps practices.
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