Jason Yang
Director, Business Analytics MCAPS AI Incubation
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Yang is a seasoned analytics and engineering leader with 25+ years of cross-functional experience and a decade focused on data, AI, and BI at Microsoft driving enterprise-scale decisions. He currently leads the data and metrics foundation for multi-agent AI incubation and has previously built global BI platforms that scaled to tens of thousands of users and informed executive and field decisions across Azure, Security, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics. Equally comfortable with strategy and hands-on engineering, Jason contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as Microsoft’s vcpkg and Azure SDKs, bringing practical experience in C++ build systems, dependency management, and cloud storage integrations. His background spans finance, product analytics, and software R&D, enabling him to translate commercial objectives into secure, auditable analytics and real-time reporting. Known for launching self-serve BI that became one of Microsoft’s top Power BI reports and for winning internal excellence awards, he combines rigorous measurement with pragmatic delivery. Based in Redmond, he pairs an MBA from Michigan with deep telecom and engineering roots from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a blend that helps him navigate both technical complexity and business strategy.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance and Strategy, MBA, Finance and Strategy at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of BusinessMaster, Telecom Engineering, Master, Telecom Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
c-language10
lib10
apidoc10
azure-sdk10
net10
storage10
dotnet10
cmake10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net10
api10
dotnet-core10
vcpkg10
azure10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 11 PRs, 42 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Azure Storage management library for .NET. They implemented new operations related to listing account and service SAS credentials. Further, they fixed documentation comments, corrected type errors, and bumped the version of the library, suggesting active involvement in improving and maintaining the project's functionality. Their commits reflect work related to storage account functionalities and unit tests.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
Azure/azure-sdk-for-node
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Azure SDK for Node.js - Documentation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason's commits primarily focused on updating the storage-related specifications and the associated JavaScript code within the Azure SDK for Node.js repository. They updated the autorest specifications, models and generated code, and added support for https traffic only, demonstrating an understanding of the underlying storage service implementation. The user also updated existing test records and added test cases related to account and service SAS.
js-documentationazure-functionsnode-jsjavascriptsdk
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