Jude Kavalam
Principal Engineering Manager - Python Language Server at Microsoft
United States
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Top SchoolJude Kavalam is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft who leads the team behind the Python Language Server (Pylance), bringing over two decades of deep product and platform experience to developer tooling. He has a rare blend of systems, developer tools, and product-risk engineering expertise from long-tenured roles across Windows, Internet Explorer, Core OS, and the Microsoft Store, where he introduced rules-based and ML-driven risk analysis. Jude pairs hands-on technical leadership in C# and TypeScript with a curiosity for functional programming, TLA+, data science, machine learning and blockchain—holding multiple blockchain certifications. He has run engineering and CTO functions in startups, shipped high-performance distributed algorithms predating Hadoop, and driven large cross-team efforts like porting SAP R/3 to Windows. Known for creating practical frameworks that scale across products and teams, he focuses on empowering developer productivity and measurable customer impact.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Denver
Github Skills (91)
visual-studio-mac10
python10
sdl10
language-server-protocol10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
manim10
game-development10
pylance10
visual-studio-extension10
visual-studio-for-mac10
opengl10
pylint10
scripting10
pure-python10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
judej/pyright
Feb 2021 - Jan 2024
Static type checker for Python
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
type-checkerpythonstatic-analysischecker
judej/PTVS
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Python Tools for Visual Studio
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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