Janice Dsa
Principal Engineering Manager, Azure Cloud Shell And Azure Serial Console at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJanice Dsa is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 10+ years building systems from kernel and filesystem work to cloud-hosted developer experiences, currently leading Azure Cloud Shell and Azure Serial Console. She combines deep systems and IoT engineering (contributions to Azure IoT SDKs and IoT Edge) with product-facing leadership, driving adoption, revenue and quality across end-to-end experiences from UX to hosting infrastructure. Janice thrives on strategic, security-sensitive initiatives—especially secure terminals and Copilot integrations—and has a track record of turning prototype ideas into production features for large customers. Her background in kernel and storage engineering gives her a rare low-level perspective that informs scalable cloud and device identity solutions. Based in Seattle, she pairs hands-on technical contributions to open-source IoT projects with building and coaching customer-facing engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (17)
net10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dotnet10
azure-iothub10
azure-iot-edge10
asp-net10
iot10
sdk10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
dockers9
mqttnet9
mqtt9
docker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 27 PRs, 74 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Janice primarily contributed to the `azure/iotedge` repository by implementing and modifying code related to the Edge Agent and its interaction with IoT Hub. Their work involved enabling and refining the functionality of the module's interaction with the cloud, specifically when the agent is offline. They also added logging for connection status changes and improved error handling for reported properties updates and container operations. Additionally, they were involved in the implementation of a DPS flow.
iot
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-csharp
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Janice contributed to the Azure IoT C# SDK by implementing authentication methods, specifically focusing on device authentication using shared access signatures and keys. Their work involved modifications to multiple C# files to support the new authentication flows and related components. They also bumped version numbers in several project files and added a test for a method invocation request.
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