SurajĀ Jacob
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSuraj Jacob is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Bellevue with over 20 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native applications, DevOps pipelines, and large-scale execution engines. At Microsoft he progressed from kernel and test engineering into full-stack cloud monitoring, security engineering, and leadership roles driving Azure Application Insights and container execution initiatives. He combines deep systems-level knowledge (VMware/HP kernel and storage work) with product-facing telemetry and security expertise, making him comfortable from low-level infrastructure to distributed cloud services. Known for shipping reliable, secure solutions at scale, he has repeatedly moved between individual contributor and management roles to accelerate technical delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex telemetry and security requirements into pragmatic, production-ready architectures. He brings a practical eye for observability and threat-resilient design informed by years running real-time data streaming and alerting pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Marian Junior CollegeBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Cochin University of Science and Technology
English, French, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada
Github Skills (50)
tar10
nuget10
visual-studio-code-extension10
static-analysis10
microsoft10
vmdk10
analyzer10
security-scanner10
extraction10
microsoft-azure10
security10
recursion10
visual-studio-extension10
surface10
azure10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/codeql-container
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
Prepackaged and precompiled github codeql container for rapid analysis, deployment and development.
Contributions:6 reviews, 23 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 5 months
precompiledsemmledeploymentdockerrapid
jacobmsft/applicationinsights_jupyter
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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