Jason Prickett
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Compute at Microsoft
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJason Prickett is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of engineering experience and 11 years in senior roles at Microsoft, currently automating Azure data center buildouts for Azure Compute. He is a pragmatic full‑stack developer who favors C#, Java, and JavaScript and pairs front-end usability with robust back-end and DevOps automation. His work spans cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes-backed Machine Learning services, and CI/CD systems—contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as the Azure Repos VS Code extension and Azure Pipelines agents. Jason has driven integrations with GitHub/GitHub Enterprise and Jenkins, added telemetry and testing across pipelines, and improved multi-repo and OAuth scenarios—demonstrating both systems design and hands-on delivery. He mentors engineers and bridges teams to accelerate feature delivery, and quietly specializes in making complex deployment and versioning flows resilient and observable. Based in Raleigh, NC, he blends deep product history (dating back to the first TFS releases) with ongoing cloud infrastructure impact.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
azure-devops-server10
gradle10
git10
azure-application-insights10
msbuild10
tfvc10
xamarin10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
java10
cicd10
javas10
azure-devops10
build-automation10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/tfs-plugin
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Jenkins tfs plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 39 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jason focused on adding telemetry features to the Jenkins TFS plugin, implementing the `TelemetryHelper` class to send events to Application Insights. They added various calls to the helper class throughout the codebase, including in endpoints for Team events and build processes, to capture events related to build actions, pull requests, and work item updates. They also introduced and refined telemetry initialization and context configuration. This involved modifications to existing classes to facilitate event tracking and enhance monitoring capabilities.
jenkinstfs
microsoft/azure-repos-vscode
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Azure Repos extension for VS Code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 63 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on implementing the TFVC command framework within the Azure Repos extension for VS Code. This involved adding functionality related to TFVC commands, which included features like argument building, output parsing, and version checking. They were also responsible for refactoring code, resolving dependency issues, and updating code to improve usability and stability. These updates demonstrate a strong understanding of how to integrate the TFVC command line client with a VS Code extension.
azure-reposvscode
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