Jessica Groot
Senior Technical Consultant at Microsoft
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJessica Groot is a Senior Technical Consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience building enterprise solutions across Azure, identity (Azure B2C custom policies, Entra ID), .NET APIs, and modern front-ends like React and Angular. She leads customer-facing teams to migrate legacy monoliths to service-oriented architectures, design secure cloud-hosted APIs, and automate CI/CD pipelines while mentoring developers and championing clean code and testing. A Microsoft Unsung Hero and Microsoft Global Hackathon Executive Challenge winner, she blends technical excellence with advocacy for DEI, green energy, and Women in Tech. Based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, she pairs deep identity expertise and practical data integration skills with growing interest in embedding AI (Copilot) into enterprise APIs. Early roots in crafting text adventures reveal a long-standing curiosity for creative problem solving that informs her pragmatic, customer-focused engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Busines, Computer Information Systems - Programming Track, Associate of Applied Busines, Computer Information Systems - Programming Track at The University of AkronBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems - Programming Specialist, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems - Programming Specialist at University of AkronGraphic Design, Graphic Design at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh-Online Division
Stackoverflow
597reputation
175kreached
7answers
0questions
Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
python10
census10
visual-studio9
azure9
microsoft-azure8
tac8
microsoft7
issue-tracking7
visual-studio-extension7
blazor6
hyperlink6
angular6
asp-net6
asp-net-core6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JGroot/ViciousMockeryInsultGenerator
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
An Insult Generator created for Vicious Mockery cantrip used by Bards in Dungeons and Dragons
Contributions:50 commits, 20 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 6 months
insultdungeonsmockerytestingdragons
JGroot/Spoon-Knife
Oct 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 7 months
pythonkubernetes
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.