Jason Tan
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Tan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, large-scale platforms at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and generative AI. At Microsoft he architected core Copilot orchestration and agentic platforms that power 20+ Office copilots and over 50M monthly users, and led LLM-friendly document understanding and Excel Copilot initiatives that improved grounding and developer productivity. He combines systems-thinking and operational excellence—designing scalable persistence, plugin extensibility, provenance pipelines, and high-intent classifiers—while mentoring teams and driving cross-org delivery. Comfortable from low-level rearchitecture to product-facing AI features, Jason has a track record of establishing architectural patterns adopted across product lines. Based in Woodinville, WA, he pairs a strong academic foundation from UIUC and UW with practical experience shipping fault-tolerant systems at product scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Indonesian, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
azure10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
rest8
openapi7
oas6
webapi6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Jasontang501/azure-content
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
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Jasontang501/azure-docs
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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