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 - Arlington, Virginia - 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 - McLean, Virginia - 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 - McLean, Virginia - 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
• Azure Certified Developer Associate
• CompTIA Security+
• TS Clearance
• Coursework towards Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Salisbury University