Jay Bazuzi
Ensemble Coach And Contributor at Language Hunters
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Bazuzi is an experienced software engineer and ensemble coach with 14+ years of turning legacy systems into clean, testable, and continuously shippable code while leading teams to #BugsZero. He blends hands-on development, mob/pair programming facilitation, and technical advising—most recently as Principal Engineer at Salesforce and now contributing to the ApprovalTests open-source project to rapidly increase test coverage. Jay excels at coaching teams through pragmatic refactoring and delivery practices (Bazel adoption, TDD, CI) without interrupting feature flow, and he prefers long-term, hands-on engagements with 1–3 teams. A rare combination of product-focus and deep code-crafting, he also serves on the board of Language Hunters, bringing community-building experience and an unusual commitment to cultural preservation alongside engineering excellence.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Swedish, chinook jargon, Sign languages
Stackoverflow
45,729reputation
8.9mreached
316answers
74questions
tdd
top-5%
extension-methods
top-5%
powershell
top-1%
linq
top-5%
localization
top-5%
obfuscation
top-5%
Github Skills (37)
mstest10
nunit10
syntax10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
csharp10
test-automation10
scripting9
linq9
testing9
programming-language9
memory-leaks9
unit-testing9
regex9
batchfile9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
approvals/ApprovalTests.Net
Feb 2016 - May 2020
ApprovalTest verification library for .Net
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jay focused on enhancing the test suite for the approvaltests.net library. Their contributions include adding tests for various scenarios, such as MsTest integration and PDF scrubbing functionalities. They made changes to existing test classes, introduced new test cases, and updated the test framework by refactoring the date regex.
dotnetapproval-testingverification-librarypodcastsecurity
RefactoringCombos/ArlosCommitNotation
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
A notation for small commits messages that show the risk involved in each step
Contributions:9 reviews, 23 commits, 24 PRs in 4 years 1 month
commitsrisknotation
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