James Duan
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Duan is a software engineer and University of Maryland computer science student with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack and systems software. He currently works on Fire TV Display Ads at Amazon and has previously delivered production microservices in Rust, automated deployment tooling, and responsive e-commerce platforms that cut debugging time in half. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and DevOps — from Axum-based Rust services and Playwright tests to RPM packaging and Systemd service orchestration — he blends practical engineering with attention to operational reliability. In internships he also led small teams and drove measurable growth in web performance and conversions, demonstrating product-focused impact beyond pure implementation. James is actively seeking new-grad opportunities and brings a pragmatic, deployment-minded approach to shipping end-to-end features.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computing Science, BSc, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (55)
microsoft10
dotnet10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
sdk10
api10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
csharp10
openapi10
azure-sdk9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
azure-functions9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MasterRyd3l/react-interview-q1
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
Azure/azure-rest-api-specs
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:70 reviews, 46 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 4 months
apicloudspecificationsrestmicrosoft-azure
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