Jason Hartman
Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJason Hartman is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Kirkland, Washington, with eight years of focused professional experience and a long tenure at Microsoft spanning roles from Software Developer to Senior SDE. He specializes in deployment and setup experiences for developer tooling—most notably providing installation and setup for Visual Studio products—and has progressed into senior engineering responsibilities since returning to Microsoft in 2020. Prior to that he led engineering at StrataGen Systems, combining hands-on development with team leadership and delivery ownership. Jason is comfortable operating in large-scale enterprise environments where reliability, backwards compatibility, and developer experience are critical. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances product-focused execution with attention to the nuances of installer and deployment tooling. His background suggests deep institutional knowledge of Microsoft’s developer platform and a practical knack for smoothing the first-run experience for millions of developers.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (155)
visual-studio-code-extension10
realtime10
http10
websocket10
client-server10
cpp10
collaboration10
javascript10
async10
editor10
sdk10
dependency-manager10
fluid10
electron10
typescript10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jason-ha/FluidFramework
Oct 2022 - Jul 2026
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 630 pushes in 3 years 9 months
distributedweb-applicationswebsocketcollaborativereal-time
jason-ha/cpprestsdk
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.
Contributions:3 PRs, 34 pushes, 18 branches in 7 months
api-designasynchronousclient-servercloud-computingcpp
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