Yogesh Jagadeesan
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYogesh Jagadeesan is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years at Microsoft, based in Redmond, WA, who specializes in backend systems and cloud-native service development. He has driven core pieces of Azure services—most notably work on Azure Digital Twins and contributions to the Azure Functions runtime and core tools—delivering performance improvements, runtime reliability fixes, and deployment/DevOps configuration updates. Comfortable across API design, service orchestration, and language worker/runtime mechanics, he has hands-on experience re-architecting APIs for scale and routing telemetry to EventGrid/EventHub/ServiceBus. His open-source contributions to high-profile Azure repos demonstrate a pragmatic focus on maintainability and deployment automation, including Dockerfile and template updates. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who bridges deep systems knowledge with practical CI/CD and host/runtime concerns. He holds an MS in Computer Science from RIT and brings a track record of turning complex cloud requirements into robust, production-ready services.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at SSN College of Engineering
English, Tamil
Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
net10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
serverless9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
cicd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-functions-host
Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
The host/runtime that powers Azure Functions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 142 reviews, 119 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Yogesh primarily contributed to the `azure-functions-host` repository by addressing issues related to language worker channels, host extensions, and core functionality. They fixed a specific bug identified by an issue number, updated summaries, and modified the ExtensionsController by adding flags for post-install actions. Their work also involved introducing capabilities for the host to send raw bodies, updating the language worker restart logic, and categorizing logs.
hostazure-functionsserverlesspowersruntime
Azure/azure-functions-core-tools
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
Command line tools for Azure Functions
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 14 reviews, 15 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yogesh primarily focused on updating the Microsoft Azure Functions Core Tools, specifically updating the `Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Script.WebHost` package version within the project's dependencies, indicating a role in maintaining the tool's core functionality. Their commits also included changes to the project's configuration files and Dockerfiles, showing an understanding of build processes and deployment configurations. Furthermore, the user contributed to setting up custom handler configurations and template updates, showing involvement in the core tool's extension capabilities and configuration.
command-line-toolsazure-functionsazure
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