Nicole James
Group Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Aliso Viejo, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicole James is a Group Software Engineering Manager with over two decades of experience leading large-scale cloud, networking, and test automation efforts, currently driving experimental open source projects for Azure CTO incubations. She has a strong track record at Microsoft building and scaling engineering and test teams, architecting continuous validation and deployment pipelines for MPP data warehousing, and improving control plane KPIs for Azure services. Her background in aerospace engineering and flight test adds a systems-level rigor to software validation and fault-injection strategies, informing robust release and certification practices. Nicole excels at mentoring, hands-on recruiting, and cross-group partnership to translate organizational vision into customer-focused features and measurable operational improvements. She brings a blend of startup and enterprise experience, from founding QA at a peer-to-peer collaboration startup to shaping early cloud platform tools, making her adept at both innovation and production reliability.
2 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderAcademics, Academics at Pomona High School
Github Skills (11)
sysinternals9
cloud-native9
procmon9
cli7
procdump7
windows6
file-manager6
linux6
frontend5
aws1
bicep1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nicolejms/radius
Sep 2025 - May 2026
Radius is a cloud-native, portable application platform that makes app development easier for teams building cloud-native apps.
Contributions:6 reviews, 36 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months
nicolejms/todo-list-app-gh
Jun 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:44 pushes, 4 branches in 18 days
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