Simon Jäger is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft in Redmond with over a decade of experience building secure, backend-focused systems for enterprise and cloud platforms. He specializes in edge security and backend API design, exemplified by contributions to the PnP project where he implemented Outlook Notifications API endpoints and integrations with the Outlook REST API using C#/.NET. Simon’s career at Microsoft progressed from Technical Evangelist to Principal Engineer, reflecting a blend of developer advocacy, hands-on engineering, and architecture leadership. Earlier co-founding a game studio, he brings product-minded engineering and experience in front- and back-end integration, telemetry, and tooling. He holds a MSc and BSc in Computer Science from KTH and is known for turning complex integration scenarios into robust, operable services.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the back-end logic of an Outlook Notifications API WebAPI. Their work involved setting up and configuring the API endpoints, including a NotifyController for handling callbacks. The commits demonstrate the use of C# and .NET Framework to implement the API functionality. They also integrated with the Outlook REST API, handling event subscriptions and processing calendar events.
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Simon Jäger - Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft