Jackson Woods
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Woods is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft with eight years of experience shaping developer and identity experiences for Microsoft Graph and the Identity & Network Access teams. He specializes in designing secure authorization models and improving developer workflows, from in-product surveys and documentation to code samples and APIs that help apps access data safely. His background in political science and China studies, including a Ph.D. and time as a postdoctoral fellow, gives him a rare blend of rigorous research, cross-cultural insight, and policy-aware thinking applied to technical product problems. Based in Kirkland, WA, Jackson brings an academic discipline to product decisions and a pragmatic focus on developer experience that quietly surfaces in measurable improvements to security and API usability.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Asian Studies (High Honors) & Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Asian Studies (High Honors) & Political Science at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science at The George Washington UniversityInter-University Program for Chinese Language Study (IUP), Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study (IUP) at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
rest-api10
api10
rest10
azure10
graph10
microsoft10
microsoft-graph10
microsoft-azure9
azure-ad-graph-api9
microsoft-identity9
endpoint9
client-library8
msal8
asp-net-core-mvc8
oauth-client7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Jackson-Woods/azure-docs
Feb 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
Jackson-Woods/microsoft-graph-docs
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Documentation for the Microsoft Graph REST API
Contributions:23 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
apipower-platformsolidworksapi-documentationrest
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