J Little
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJ Little is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Seattle with two decades of experience building and scaling cloud-native, event-driven systems and high-performing engineering teams. He leads multiple Agile teams at Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering group, driving reusable Azure blueprints and contributing to OSS efforts like improving Azure support in the Serverless Framework. Deeply technical, he combines expertise in containers, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, microservices and modern web stacks with a strong emphasis on engineering fundamentals, quality at speed, and observability. Known for creating measurable people-development frameworks and an inclusive team culture, he has increased morale and retention through intentional career planning and continuous feedback. Behind the scenes he also automates DevOps-heavy release pipelines—evidenced by contributions to the popular VoTT project—bridging hands-on engineering with strategic product and partner engagement.
10 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (13)
azure10
automation10
bash10
automations10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
javascript5
annotator4
annotate4
annotations4
electron4
object-detection3
react3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VoTT
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
Visual Object Tagging Tool: An electron app for building end to end Object Detection Models from Images and Videos.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 39 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:J primarily focused on automating build, testing, and deployment processes for the VoTT application. Their contributions included the creation and modification of scripts for code complexity analysis, changelog generation, and release staging. Furthermore, the user implemented scripts to deploy the application to Azure and updated existing build scripts to improve robustness and incorporate versioning information.
imagetaggervideosannotation-tooltaggingtoolsend-to-end
serverless/azure-build-task
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
A Serverless build task for Azure Dev Ops
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 day
dev-opsopsdevserverlessazure-dev-ops
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