Jon Huhn
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Huhn is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable cloud-native systems and developer tooling, currently at Microsoft in Rochester, MN. He blends backend development, DevOps, and test automation—having contributed significant reliability and CI/CD improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Kubernetes, Cluster API, and Neovim. His work spans embedding Helm charts into CLIs, hardening e2e tests for Azure providers, and fixing flaky LSP tests, demonstrating a focus on testability and operational resilience. Jon has a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes that reduce operational friction (e.g., triage tooling links, workload identity configs) and enabling smoother cluster management and upgrades. He brings hands-on experience across both product code and infrastructure, comfortable moving between Go-based cloud projects and automation-driven QA. Practical, detail-oriented, and community-minded, he often surfaces reliability gains that benefit both users and maintainers.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (33)
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cloud-infrastructure10
language-server-protocol10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
functional-testing10
cicd10
lua10
automation10
language-server10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openservicemesh/osm
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1161 reviews, 440 commits, 473 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the Open Service Mesh (OSM) project by removing dependencies, fixing tests, and embedding the Helm chart into the CLI binary. They also added features such as pre-install validation and the ability to upgrade the control plane. The user focused on improving the demo environment, fixing logging, and modifying configurations related to image pulls and the CI/CD pipeline.
observabilitymicroservicesecuremicroservicesextensible
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1379 reviews, 41 commits, 273 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the `kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure` repository, which is a Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure. Their contributions included fixing bugs in the e2e tests related to activity logs and adding lint configuration for the `//go:build e2e` files. Additionally, they contributed to the functionality of managed machine pools by adding the ability to enable node public IPs and other related features. The user also fixed issues related to asynchronous operations.
apicluster-apik8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclek8s-provider-azuremicrosoft-azure
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