Jason Tucker

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Professional Profile

Principal Architect and technical leader with over 20 years of experience driving enterprise-scale solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. Proven track record of modernizing legacy systems, establishing architectural patterns, and leading complex technical initiatives.

Professional Experience

Microsoft

June 2015 - Present
Principal Architect
  • Led architectural modernization initiative for various legacy systems, resulting in reduced technical debt and enhanced security posture through migration to Cloud-first distributed architecture using Azure services.
  • Established containerization strategy and guidance, enabling standardized deployment practices and improved application portability across the organization.
  • Drove Architecture Design Reviews for mission-critical applications, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Served as technical subject matter expert for secure data delivery standards, defining specifications that enabled compliant and efficient data access for law enforcement customers.
  • Worked with partner organizations to enable them to follow the internal standard for secure data delivery, ensuring that customer data was protected.
  • Delivered guidance for increasing developer productivity using various automated tools available within Microsoft.
Senior Software Engineer
  • Architected and implemented a new subsystem enabling a much requested new data feed for law enforcement, delivering both historical and real-time querying capabilities using Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Hubs, and Microsoft Graph.
  • Mentored development teams in modern Cloud-first development practices, leading workshops and providing technical guidance for complex implementations.
Senior Consultant
  • Contributed to a large Army DevSecOps engagement, implementing rapid software provisioning system that reduced deployment time from weeks to hours across multiple device types.
  • Established comprehensive CI/CD pipelines and development processes, resulting in streamlined delivery and improved product quality for Army systems.
  • Built and scaled automated Lab environment for system testing, enabling development teams to generate on-demand Azure environments for enhanced computing capabilities.
  • Modernized Department of State's SMART email system, transforming monolithic architecture into microservices using Service Fabric, .NET Core, and Angular.
  • Developed integrated back-office system for Department of Defense, implementing seamless gift tracking and asset control system for diplomatic operations.

Buchanan & Edwards

May 2013 - June 2015
Senior Software Engineer
  • Led FBI's confidential informant database application development, implementing Scrum methodologies and DevOps practices while modernizing the architecture from monolithic to microservices using C# and ASP.NET.
  • Developed SharePoint-based solution for Department of State payroll division, modernizing manual processes.

Sotera Defense Systems

July 2006 - April 2013
Senior Software Developer
  • Led development team in maintaining and enhancing ASP.NET web applications, reducing code footprint by 40% through migration to jQuery/MVC.
  • Created SharePoint-based metrics dashboard integrating multiple data sources for improved project management visibility.

Project Performance Corporation

October 2000 - July 2006
Senior Developer
  • Led emerging technologies Center of Excellence, developing multiple FDA systems using .NET technologies and upgrading legacy applications.

Education and Certifications

Azure Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft Azure
Azure Certified Developer Associate
Microsoft Azure
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA
TS Clearance
U.S. Government
Coursework towards Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Salisbury University
Education