Derek Jensen
Senior Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Jensen is a Senior Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft with 12 years of experience building scalable services for Xbox Live and Microsoft Gaming. He leads the Gaming Social Interactive Services team that powers parties, messaging, feeds, and clubs, combining product-focused leadership with deep hands-on engineering. Passionate about connecting gamers, he champions positive industry impact while staying hands-on with new technologies and frameworks. Derek is also an active open-source author whose tools have attracted thousands of users and were showcased at Microsoft's 2016 Windows 10 event, reflecting a knack for creating widely adopted developer-facing software. Based in Redmond, he blends operational rigor with a gamer’s perspective to deliver social, real-time experiences at scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
English
Github Skills (49)
mixer10
pulse10
event-emitter10
music10
audio9
audio-effect9
twitch8
browser8
nodejs8
javascript7
sdk7
react7
streaming7
streamer7
chatbot6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DeekyJay/SoundwaveInteractive
Feb 2016 - Jun 2018
Interactive Sound Board for Mixer
Contributions:25 releases, 234 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 4 months
audiopulsemixermusicsound
mixer/cdk-preact-starter
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Scratch work for interactive controls
Contributions:122 commits, 20 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 6 months
scratchreact
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