Jorge Aleman Rodriguez
Senior Program Manager · Software Engineer
10+ years driving engineering systems, cloud infrastructure, and release platforms at high availability and scale, pairing hands-on software engineering with cross-functional program leadership to help large developer orgs ship faster.
About
I help large developer orgs ship faster by fixing the release infrastructure and tooling actually holding them back.
Background
I'm a Senior Technical Program Manager specializing in engineering systems and developer productivity, with 10+ years of experience building high-scale release infrastructure and tooling at Microsoft and Mojang. I bring a strong blend of program leadership and hands-on software engineering to every team I work with. Alongside that, I founded and run SimpleMenu.net, a live SaaS product, which keeps me close to a full product-owner perspective.
How I work
I start by talking with the people closest to the problem across engineering, product, and leadership, then use data to confirm where the real pain is. That gives everyone a shared view and a clear first priority. I set success metrics up front and track them as the work ships. When the work changes, I re-plan quickly and keep the team on what still matters. I bring status and risk to leadership unfiltered, so decisions are made on real information.
Experience
Product Manager
I cut manual triage time by 80% by driving adoption of custom AI agents, built on developer telemetry, that automatically detect regressions and bisect build infrastructure errors. Partnering with four Minecraft Engineering Systems teams (30+ engineers), I kept the inner and outer dev loop fast and stable across Bedrock's mobile, console, and PC targets. I also took FastBuild from concept to launch, cutting engineers' local build times by over 60%, while directing build support for 200+ developers and leading Mojang's compliance work across 10 security review waves.
Senior Program Manager
I partnered with Edge developers across US and international teams to improve their inner dev loop and CI process, saving 770+ developer hours per month, cutting build durations by 38%, and improving pass rate by 14%. I built a Kusto and PowerBI data platform to surface chronic CI/CD pain points, reducing infrastructure issues by more than 70%, and owned the support model for integrating Chromium source into Edge across mission-critical rotations of 10 engineers per sprint. I also owned roadmaps, OKRs, and release plans for 8+ projects, and cut incident response time by 70% by training a rotation of 50+ developers.
Senior Program Manager
I led the next generation of Windows' release infrastructure, automating what had been a manual process to cut release time by more than 94% and increase throughput over 2500% on Azure, while reducing retained build storage costs by 80% through adaptive retention policies. I designed a unified release manifest and API adopted by six stakeholder teams, taking release-blocking incidents from 2-5 per release to zero, and led Windows Engineering Systems' first BCDR compliance certification, completed in three months.
Founder
I founded and operate SimpleMenu.net, a live SaaS product helping people with food restrictions find safe places to eat across the US, Canada, and Mexico. I designed the structured data collection process behind our 80%+ menu-item allergen-data coverage, and used Google Analytics, PostHog, and direct user research to improve our onboarding and retention funnel by more than 60%.
Stack: Cloudflare Workers, R2, D1, Stripe, PostHog, Google Analytics
Earlier career
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Senior Software Engineer Microsoft, PCE Data Science – User Research
Cut data cleanup work by 40% for 30+ researchers and built the first version of the HITS research portal.
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Senior Software Engineer Microsoft, Market Intelligence and Customer Enablement
Built a User Voice feedback analysis system shipped to 5 other Microsoft teams, and launched the Windows Telemetry enterprise pilot.
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Software Engineer II Microsoft, Windows International
Built UI test libraries covering 16 languages and the Language Quality Game, which surfaced 1,000+ localization defects.
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Software Developer IBM, Lotus Domino for iSeries
Automated build, deployment, and media validation, saving 30+ hours of manual work a week.
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Professor ITESO University
Taught Programming Fundamentals and Advanced Algorithm Solutions, and coached ITESO's ACM programming contest teams.
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Founder Independent Software Consultancy
Delivered 2 CRM sites, 3 e-commerce platforms, and 30+ websites for small and medium businesses.
Core skills
Program Management
- Program & Project Management
- Release Management
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Incident Management
- Security Compliance
- Data-Driven Decision Making
Engineering Systems & Infra
- CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Build Automation
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Cloud Infrastructure (Azure)
AI & Developer Productivity
- Developer Productivity
- AI Agents
- AI-Driven Tooling
- GitHub Copilot
Data & Analytics
- Data Governance & Observability
- Kusto (KQL)
- Power BI
- SQL
- Data Pipelines
Languages
- C#
- .NET
- Python
- PowerShell