Jorge Cotillo
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJorge Cotillo is a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience building cloud-native deployment and orchestration systems at Microsoft, where he contributed to ARM Deployments, template schemas, and features that improved deployment success rates by ~45%. He combines deep .NET and CLR expertise with strong DevOps and IaC practice—designing CI/CD for ARM templates, automation engines in PowerShell/Python, and schema autogeneration work that powers VSCode ARM tooling. A certified Scrum Master and former professor, Jorge blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and teaching, and has spoken at industry conferences on cloud and IoT topics. Notably, his orchestration engine reduced complex environment authoring by over half and is caller-agnostic, reflecting a focus on reusable, enterprise-grade automation and compliance-friendly deployment features.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master at Scrum AllianceBachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineer, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineer at Universidad de San Martín de PorresDiplomado Internacional en Ejecucion y Direccion de Proyectos, Diplomado Internacional en Ejecucion y Direccion de Proyectos at Quality Global BusinessMicrosoft Certified Technology Specialist .NET Framework 4, Web Applications, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist .NET Framework 4, Web Applications at Prometric @ Boston, MAMaster of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, field of Software Engineering, B, Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, field of Software Engineering, B at Harvard Extension School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
github-ci10
build-system10
schema-design10
schema-org10
release-management10
automation10
build-tools10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
schema10
configuration-management9
typescripts6
azure6
azure-arm-templates6
delegates6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-resource-manager-schemas
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Schemas used to author and validate Resource Manager Templates. These schemas power the intellisense and syntax completion in our ARM Tools VSCode extension, as well as the Export Template API
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:133 reviews, 349 commits, 330 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the automation and configuration aspects of the repository. Their work involved modifying and adding files related to autogeneration processes, including updating and managing lists related to schema generation. These changes suggest a focus on improving the build and deployment pipeline, and streamlining the generation of schemas. Furthermore, they appear to have implemented conditional steps and environment variable configurations within the autogeneration scripts.
resource-managervalidateschemas
jorgecotillo/angular2-identity-server4-aspnetcore-template
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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