Jan Van Der Vegte
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Van Der Vegte is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bavaria with nine years of experience building resilient cloud-native systems at Microsoft, currently focusing on Azure OpenAI and real-time transcription for Speech Services. He has progressed from research intern to senior engineer, shipping scalable transcription pipelines, telephony-integrated real-time MVPs, and customer-facing asynchronous clients that accelerated onboarding. Skilled in back-end and DevOps, he has contributed to notable open-source samples like the Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech SDK by hardening backend logic, migrating DB deployment to code, and implementing CI/CD with Azure Pipelines to improve reliability. His academic background in applied cognition and a specialized summer program in machine learning for speech underpins a pragmatic blend of human-centered design and ML-aware engineering. Notably, he combines deep production troubleshooting (retry/exception handling, timeout mitigation) with direct customer engagement to deliver robust speech AI services.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning applied to Bioinformatics and Speech Technology Summer Programme, Machine Learning applied to Bioinformatics and Speech Technology Summer Programme at University of Eastern FinlandMaster of Science - MS Angewandte Kognitions- und Medienwissenschaft, Master of Science - MS Angewandte Kognitions- und Medienwissenschaft at University of Duisburg-Essen
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (15)
database-migrations10
azure-pipelines10
azure10
database-migration10
servicebus10
microsoft-azure10
csharp10
cicd10
dotnet-core10
netframework9
exception-handling9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Sample code for the Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:207 reviews, 44 commits, 163 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on enhancing the project's backend functionality and improving the deployment infrastructure. Their contributions included implementing retry mechanisms and consolidating output, modifying database configurations, and fixing potential issues. The user was also actively involved in setting up and configuring CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines, and migrating the database deployment to code. Furthermore, they improved the system's robustness and reliability by incorporating exception handling and addressing potential timeout errors.
azure-cognitive-servicesspeech-to-textspeech-servicesspeech-recognitioncognitive
HenryvanderVegte/AcceleratorAppZips
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:43 releases, 43 tags in 1 year
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