Jason Barnwell
Chief Product Officer at Pacific Science Center
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Barnwell is a senior legal executive and technologist with 11 years of experience modernizing legal operations at scale, currently serving as Chief Legal Officer at an AI-forward data platform company. He blends deep corporate and transactional law experience from roles at Microsoft and prominent law firms with hands-on software engineering roots and a tendency to write code to solve legal problems. At Microsoft he led cross-functional teams focused on digital transformation, outside counsel strategy, and legal business operations, scaling processes, data-driven platforms, and open-source practices across the department. He serves on nonprofit and educational boards and advises startups, channeling governance, finance, and product strategy into mission-driven organizations. Based in Seattle, he pairs a JD with an MIT BS in Mechanical Engineering and a rare combination of legal judgment and engineering fluency that helps bridge legal risk and technical innovation.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJD, Law, JD, Law at USC Gould School of Law
java, python, c#, perl, powershell
Github Skills (33)
botservice8
sdk7
tfs7
outlook7
e-mail6
logging6
watson-assistant6
nodejs6
csharp6
java6
azure5
bot-framework5
azure-bot-service5
sap5
distributed-tracing5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/CELA-Outlook-Tag-Management
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
A sample that demonstrates how an Outlook add-in can help end users manage a curated set of text tags that will be added to email contents. Cross reference https://github.com/microsoft/cela-tag-processing-service
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 months
e-mailoutlook
Smuckwell-Industries/Curious-Thinking
Sep 2025 - Oct 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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