Jason Young
Principal SDE Manager at ROYDAN Enterprises, Ltd.
Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Young is a Principal SDE Manager at Microsoft with over 25 years of software and IT leadership experience and a 13-year track record of senior engineering roles, specializing in cloud architecture, SaaS transformations, and AI adoption. He builds high-performing, diverse teams that deliver complex, scalable cloud solutions—bringing hands-on engineering experience from projects like contributions to the Azure SaaS Development Kit that improved backend APIs and dev ergonomics. Previously a CTO who architected an Azure-based telemetry platform collecting hundreds of millions of data points and driving published Microsoft case studies, he pairs executive strategy with deep technical craft in distributed systems and cloud-native design. Known for improving operational efficiency (including doubling helpdesk responsiveness) and shipping productized platforms, he thrives on aligning technology with business outcomes while mentoring engineers in modern practices. Based in Wisconsin, he combines continuous learning with a knack for turning legacy systems into modular, SaaS-ready platforms.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
RoncalliBachelors, Computer Science, Information Science, Bachelors, Computer Science, Information Science at University of Wisconsin-Green BayMishicot
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-saas
Jan 2022 - May 2022
The Azure SaaS Development Kit (ASDK) provides a reference architecture, deployable reference implementation and tools to help developers, startups, ISVs and Enterprises deliver their applications as a SaaS service. A platform for platform creators.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 39 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason focused on backend development tasks within the Azure SaaS Development Kit. Their work included allowing anonymous users for development purposes by modifying the startup file, updating and removing unused packages across multiple projects within the solution, and removing unused 'using' statements to optimize code. They also made changes related to swagger documentation, which is important for any API and backend components. Furthermore, the user was involved in merging code, specifically in removing unused code and test code changes.
deployablesaas-platform-architectureazure-sql-databasedeliverazure-devops
ytechie/time-series-data-azure-guidance
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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