Summary
Jamel Jenkins is a Principal Engineer and engineering leader with 14+ years building scalable, user-facing platforms and 7+ years leading teams, including modernizing Office 365 Help Pane to a Next.js + C# global platform serving 50M+ users at Microsoft. He blends deep systems design and cloud expertise (Azure/GCP, distributed architectures, zero-trust security) with hands-on full‑stack development across React/MERN, Node.js, C#, and GraphQL. Jamel has a track record of shipping measurable impact—reducing support ticket resolution by 60% at Home Depot—and mentoring engineers through career-aligned growth and pairing. He’s commercially curious and entrepreneurial, running Jenkies to showcase projects and building an AI assistant and coding academy to scale developer learning. Jamel seeks a Staff/Principal Engineer or Senior Engineering Manager role where he can drive architecture, scale teams, and bring AI-powered personalization to global products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Georgia State University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Clark Atlanta University