Jamie Magee
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJamie Magee is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with 13 years of experience building backend systems, dependency automation, and supply chain security. Based in Seattle after several years in Copenhagen, Jamie focuses on open source security work — contributing to projects like OpenSSF Scorecard and Dependabot while also improving integrations for tools such as Renovate and DefinitelyTyped. Their work blends pragmatic refactoring and maintenance (mssql-jdbc, Sonarr) with feature-driven contributions like Azure DevOps support and work-item linking across Dependabot and Renovate. Jamie is skilled at making large codebases more maintainable and interoperable, often fixing subtle compatibility and tooling issues across languages and platforms. Collected contributions to high-impact repos show a mix of deep backend engineering, DevOps, and TypeScript typing expertise that improves developer experience at scale. Outside work, they’re active in the OpenSSF community, signaling a commitment to improving open source security beyond day-to-day product work.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Larne Grammar SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng) Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Instrumentation and Control Engineering at University of Cambridge
English, Danish
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Github Skills (50)
azure-devops-server10
dependency-management10
nlog10
static-typing10
javascript10
npm10
package-management10
apidoc10
net10
nunit10
typescript10
dotnet10
typescript-definitions10
fluentassertions10
microsoft-azure10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
renovatebot/renovate
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:872 reviews, 153 commits, 347 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to enhancing the Azure DevOps integration within the Renovate CLI, including implementing support for labels and linking to existing work items. They also fixed several bugs related to Azure DevOps functionality, such as fetching all PRs and handling search criteria. Furthermore, the user worked on validating the Renovate config file and fixing a Node.js compatibility issue.
dependenciesdependencies-checkingbitbucketgitlabupdate
microsoft/mssql-jdbc
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
The Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity with SQL Server through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 17 PRs, 14 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily focused on code cleanup and refactoring within the JDBC driver. Their contributions involved removing redundant code elements, such as final modifiers on private methods and redundant type casts. The user also addressed code style improvements. Their work contributed to improving the maintainability and readability of the driver code.
connectivitysql-servermysqlsqldatabase-connectivity
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