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    "name": "Jason Doyle",
    "label": "Senior Software Engineer",
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    "url": "https://jasondoyle.ie/",
    "summary": "Senior software engineer with more than a decade across Microsoft Office and Azure. Builds products, distributed systems, data platforms and reliable cloud services from implementation through production operation.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Monroe",
      "region": "Washington",
      "countryCode": "US"
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        "username": "Jason-Doyle",
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        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "jasondoyledev",
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      "name": "Microsoft",
      "position": "Senior Customer Experience Engineer and Technical Lead, Reliability and Observability",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/",
      "startDate": "2025-03",
      "summary": "Cross-product platform engineering across telemetry, service-health reporting and operational analytics for Azure services.",
      "highlights": [
        "Architect telemetry ingestion paths, shared analytics models and reporting surfaces across Azure services using Azure Data Explorer, Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric.",
        "Define system contracts and reporting paths that translate internal service indicators into signals used by engineering and customer-facing workflows.",
        "Define and evaluate AI-assisted analysis for incident detection and proactive service-health workflows.",
        "Diagnose production failures in live Azure services with engineering teams and enterprise customers, from evidence collection through mitigation and design change."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Microsoft",
      "position": "Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Azure Data",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/",
      "startDate": "2023-09",
      "endDate": "2025-03",
      "summary": "Reliability strategy and production operations for Azure data services used by millions.",
      "highlights": [
        "Owned reliability strategy and operational improvement across a multi-service production portfolio.",
        "Designed and introduced structured diagnostic and incident-management workflows built around shared telemetry.",
        "Directed high-severity troubleshooting from evidence collection through mitigation and durable remediation."
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    {
      "name": "Microsoft",
      "position": "Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Localization as a Service",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/",
      "startDate": "2019-09",
      "endDate": "2023-09",
      "summary": "Azure services, automation and operational tooling for high-availability platforms supporting global Microsoft product workflows.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built automation that improved deployment consistency and operational readiness across several services.",
        "Modernised Azure infrastructure, monitoring and diagnostic tooling.",
        "Delivered efficiency improvements while preserving service reliability and performance expectations."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Microsoft",
      "position": "Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Ireland",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/",
      "startDate": "2014-05",
      "endDate": "2019-09",
      "summary": "Progressed from intern to senior software engineer across data processing, telemetry, localisation, validation and Office publishing systems.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built large-scale data-processing, telemetry, localisation-validation and publishing systems for Microsoft Office engineering.",
        "Developed automation frameworks, workflow tooling and Azure-based internal services.",
        "Improved the performance and reliability of distributed validation and publishing workflows."
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      "institution": "Griffith College",
      "area": "Systems and Principles",
      "studyType": "City & Guilds Diploma, NFQ Level 6",
      "startDate": "2013",
      "endDate": "2014"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Ballyfermot College of Further Education",
      "area": "Information Technology",
      "studyType": "FETAC Level 5 Certificate",
      "startDate": "2009",
      "endDate": "2010"
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      "name": "Backend and distributed systems",
      "keywords": [
        "C#/.NET",
        "TypeScript",
        "SQL/T-SQL",
        "APIs",
        "Distributed systems",
        "CI/CD",
        "Automation"
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      "name": "Product and service delivery",
      "keywords": [
        "Data modelling",
        "Access boundaries",
        "Background workflows",
        "Deployment",
        "Product operation"
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      "name": "Data and analytics platforms",
      "keywords": [
        "Azure Data Explorer",
        "SQL Server",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Microsoft Fabric",
        "Azure Synapse",
        "Telemetry platforms"
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        "High availability",
        "Incident command",
        "Production diagnosis",
        "SLI/SLO design",
        "Operational readiness"
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  "projects": [
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      "name": "BarnPage",
      "description": "A deployed private workspace for riding barns with scheduling, barn-scoped access, lesson media and trainer-reviewed AI feedback.",
      "url": "https://barnpage.com/",
      "keywords": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Next.js",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Azure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "ThimbleDB",
      "description": "An open-source encrypted browser-first database for small, read-heavy web applications, using object storage for durable state and an application-owned authority for identity, access and writes.",
      "url": "https://github.com/Jason-Doyle/thimble",
      "keywords": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Web Crypto",
        "Object storage",
        "Cloudflare R2",
        "OIDC"
      ]
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  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Language Models Are Changing the Gameplay Interface",
      "publisher": "Jason Doyle",
      "releaseDate": "2026-09-18",
      "url": "https://jasondoyle.ie/whitepapers/language-models-are-changing-the-gameplay-interface/",
      "summary": "A current and forward-looking analysis of gameplay-time language models and the systems shaping their use."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Install Button Hides a Distributed System",
      "publisher": "Jason Doyle",
      "releaseDate": "2026-09-17",
      "url": "https://jasondoyle.ie/whitepapers/the-install-button-hides-a-distributed-system/",
      "summary": "A client-state model for software delivery from published build to verified launchable state, supported by a deterministic simulator and 6,000 raw runs."
    },
    {
      "name": "Polished Code Can Hide a Broken Model",
      "publisher": "Jason Doyle",
      "releaseDate": "2026-09-16",
      "url": "https://jasondoyle.ie/whitepapers/polished-code-can-hide-a-broken-model/",
      "summary": "Why implementation fluency can conceal an incomplete system contract and how review can expose the assumptions that matter."
    }
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