Jacob Hill
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolJacob Hill is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud search and AI-infused services at Microsoft, currently working on Azure Search. He progressed through multiple engineering roles since joining Microsoft after a Computer Science degree from Brigham Young University, including summer internship work on Azure CLI tooling and backend services for Cloud Intelligence Quickstart. Jacob blends hands-on backend development with cloud-native product experience, shipping features across search, indexing, and developer-facing tooling. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs practical engineering execution with deep familiarity of Azure ecosystems and developer workflows. A quiet signal of his trajectory is steady internal advancement at a single large cloud provider, reflecting both technical depth and strong cross-team collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (40)
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
api10
sdk10
rest10
dotnet-core10
rest-api10
azure10
csharp10
openapi10
game-development8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/CIQS-Azure-Cli-Extension
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Implementation of CIQS(Cloud Intelligence Quickstart) Azure Cli extension
Contributions:2 releases, 40 PRs, 80 pushes in 2 months
azure-cli-extensioncloudazureazure-cliintelligence
tjacobhi/azure-rest-api-specs
Nov 2019 - Mar 2023
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:24 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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