Orlando Watson
EMFN at US Navy
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOrlando Watson is a pragmatic Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building web and cloud-native systems, currently serving as EMFN in the US Navy and formerly a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He has deep hands-on experience across Node.js, MongoDB, and backend services, and contributed to Microsoft’s Azure SDK for JavaScript by implementing phone number administration and long-running operation workflows for Communication Services. Based in San Jose, he pairs enterprise-scale engineering with nonprofit and startup experience—redeveloping a college prep organization’s website to improve UX, performance, and SEO. Known for attention to detail and reliability, he blends production-grade backend work with product-minded frontend improvements and a knack for translating operational needs into durable software.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Sciences, High School Diploma Sciences at Titchfield High SchoolHigh School Diploma Sciences, High School Diploma Sciences at Portland High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Claflin University
Github Skills (12)
azure10
typescript10
javascript10
nodejs10
telecommunication10
typescripts10
api10
microsoft-azure10
communications10
apidoc10
typescript-types10
azure-sdk10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-js
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for JavaScript (NodeJS & Browser). For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/javascript/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 reviews, 31 commits, 75 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Orlando focused on adding and updating functionalities related to phone number administration within the Azure SDK for JavaScript. Their contributions included adding features such as `PhoneNumberAdministration` and Long Running Operations (LROs) for phone number purchases, and releasing samples of phone number capabilities. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the Communication Services SDK. The user interacted with different API endpoints for managing phone numbers and updating capabilities.
azureazure-sdkjavascriptjsnodejs
PassportToCollege/passport-to-college-api
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:38 PRs, 72 pushes, 24 branches in 3 months
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