Jeffery Wasty is a software engineer based in Vancouver with eight years of hands-on experience building back-end systems and secure integrations. He has contributed to high-profile open-source work on Microsoft’s mssql-jdbc driver, adding Azure AD authentication and secure enclave attestation support—demonstrating a focus on security and cloud interoperability. His professional background spans enterprise product development at Magnitude Software and practical co-op roles across fintech and e-commerce, complemented by tutoring experience that sharpened his ability to explain complex concepts. Trained in AI and Machine Learning through BCIT and with an earlier academic foundation in biochemistry from UBC, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective to engineering problems. Known for pragmatic refactors and bug fixes that improve reliability, he pairs design sensibility with low-level attention to correctness.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry at The University of British Columbia
The Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity with SQL Server through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 releases, 751 reviews, 10 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeffery primarily focused on enhancing the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server. Their contributions involved adding and testing features related to Azure Active Directory authentication and secure enclaves. They also addressed bug fixes by correcting formatting, preventing implicit narrowing conversions, and removing deprecated tags. Furthermore, the user refactored and implemented functionality for attestation protocols, specifically for the "NONE" attestation protocol.
The Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity with SQL Server through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs).
Contributions:52 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 10 months
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