Jonathan Gao
Technical Writer at Microsoft
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Gao is a seasoned technical writer with 13 years in tech, currently shaping developer-facing documentation at Microsoft from Charlotte, NC. He blends deep cloud deployment experience—evident from hands-on contributions to the high-profile Azure Quickstart Templates repo—with a formal background in computer information science. Jonathan translates complex Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell deployment patterns into clear, actionable guidance, often improving automation around VM and integration runtime setup. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering and documentation, turning intricate scripts and ARM configurations into usable runbooks. His work shows a curiosity for DevOps tooling as well as the discipline to maintain enterprise-grade documentation at scale.
13 years of coding experience
master, Computer information science, master, Computer information science at Sam Houston State University
Github Skills (12)
azure-resource-manager10
resource-manager10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
devops10
deployment-automation10
scripting10
cicd10
aac9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 225 commits, 482 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan's commits focused on updating and modifying deployment scripts, specifically for Azure resource deployment. These changes involved updating parameter files, template locations, and Azure Resource Manager deployment configurations. Furthermore, there are updates to scripts that set up a VM with integration runtime. They modified PowerShell scripts to install required tools and configuration settings related to Azure resource deployment.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
mumian/azure-quickstart-templates
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Azure Quickstart Templates
Contributions:16 commits, 404 pushes, 521 branches in 1 month
arm-templatestemplatesazure
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