Warren Jones
Software Design Engineer, Quantum Systems at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWarren Jones is a software design engineer with four years focused on quantum systems and a long Microsoft tenure spanning cloud, devices, and data platforms. He currently contributes to Azure Quantum tooling—authoring CLI extension features, SDK support for Q#, Qiskit, Cirq, Quil and QIR, and improving job submission and error reporting in the public azure-cli-extensions repo. His background includes applying Azure AI and .NET across mobile and device prototypes, migrating complex enterprise services into secure air-gapped Azure pipelines, and low-level C++ work integrating HSMs with Envoy/BoringSSL. Comfortable across Python, C#, C++ and cloud services, he blends open-source collaboration with production-grade engineering for developer-facing platforms. Notably, he pairs quantum workflow tooling with pragmatic improvements like version checks and unit-tested helpers, showing attention to both developer experience and operational robustness. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he brings interdisciplinary experience from embedded drivers to cloud-scale data migration and AI-integrated device projects.
4 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Music minor, BS Computer Science Music minor at University of North Texas
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
python10
azure-cli10
cli9
error-handling9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli-extensions
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 26 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Warren's primary contribution involved adding version checks to the quantum extension for the Azure CLI. They created a helper file and implemented unit tests to ensure the version check functionality. Further contributions included replacing deprecated CLI errors with new error types in various operations and fixing compilation issues in the job submission process. The user also focused on improving the error reporting for failed jobs.
azure-cli-extensionpublic-repositoryextensionsazureazure-cli
warren-jones/azure-cli-extensions
Sep 2021 - Apr 2025
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Contributions:462 pushes, 54 branches in 3 years 7 months
public-repositoryextensionsazureazure-clicli
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