Jason Hand
Developer Advocate
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Hand is a Senior Developer Advocate at Datadog with 11 years of experience helping DevOps, SRE, and AI practitioners adopt practical tooling and workflows. Formerly a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, he excels at creating demos, workshops, and multimedia content that translate complex cloud and AI concepts into usable guidance. Jason combines hands-on technical roots—from managing Linux servers and building BI/reporting tools—to community-building as host of the AI Tools Lab and co-host of The Community Pulse podcast. He’s skilled at turning feedback into measurable improvements, building automations to reduce repetitive work, and prototyping with serverless and no-code approaches. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he’s equal parts storyteller and engineer, known for blending live events, video, and data-driven insights to grow developer communities.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Indiana University BloomingtonC.I.S. Business, Management, Information Systems, C.I.S. Business, Management, Information Systems at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
English
Github Skills (19)
trainer10
ignite10
azure10
microsoft9
azure-functions9
reliability9
serverless8
python8
php8
java8
javascript8
nodejs8
golang7
ruby7
typescript7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bbenz/allaroundazure
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
All Around Azure Web Site
Contributions:124 commits, 27 pushes in 5 months
azure
jasonhand/ai-tools-experiments
Feb 2025 - Dec 2025
Collection of AI related tools.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 144 pushes in 9 months
ai
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