Jason Zander

Jason Zander

• Executive Vice President Microsoft Azure

Jason Zander is the Executive Vice President of the Microsoft Azure Team in the Cloud & AI group at Microsoft Corporation. His team is responsible for product management, engineering, SRE, and customer delivery of core Azure technologies including: compute, storage, networking, hybrid offerings (Azure Stack), production infrastructure engineering, IoT, and data services and systems including SQL Server. His team also manages Windows core development, Windows strategy and ecosystem, and the planning and buildout of Microsoft Data Centers from supply chain to capacity development.

Before joining the Azure team, Jason was CVP of engineering for the Visual Studio team and has worked on numerous products at Microsoft including the first several releases of the CLR and .NET Framework, SourceSafe, and ODBC. Before joining Microsoft in 1992, Jason worked at IBM on Distributed SQL and SQL/400 at the Rochester lab. Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from MSU.