Jeffrey Burt is a Senior Director of Engineering with nearly two decades of hands-on software and cloud experience and nine years in senior technical leadership roles focused on the Microsoft stack (.NET, Azure, M365). He excels at guiding high-performing teams to deliver pragmatic, production-grade solutions—ranging from event-driven microservices and DevOps pipelines to enterprise SharePoint governance. Jeffrey has repeatedly led architecture and product efforts at consultancies and startups, scaling teams and technical practices while driving migrations, integrations, and cloud-native transformations. He contributes to the Microsoft 365 Dev PnP project, improving token parsing and robustness in a widely used .NET component, showing attention to security and edge-case handling. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he blends consulting discipline with product-minded engineering, often stepping into hiring, training, and interview design to raise organizational capability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex client needs into practical roadmaps and resilient implementations.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Management Information Systems, BBA Management Information Systems at Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business
Microsoft 365 Dev PnP Core component (.NET) targeted for increasing developer productivity with CSOM based solutions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 13 PRs, 12 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily focused on fixing and improving the token parsing and processing within the SharePoint PnP Core component. Their contributions include enhancing the `TokenParser` class for more robust and secure handling of tokens, particularly those nested or XML escaped. They also addressed several bugs related to token replacement across various object handlers, such as `ObjectListInstance`, `ObjectField`, and `ObjectPages`, ensuring proper substitution and preventing potential issues with web parts and site group descriptions.
Office 365 Dev PnP Core component (.NET) targeted for increasing developer productivity with CSOM based solutions.
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 3 months
dotnetcore-componentpnpdevproductivity
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