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Jason Vallery · Longmont, Colorado

Cloud and AI infrastructure product leader

I have spent my career where an infrastructure problem becomes a customer problem. At Microsoft, that meant leading Azure Blob product work and the Azure-side storage relationship supporting OpenAI and Microsoft AI. Today I lead cloud product management at VAST Data.

I work comfortably between engineering detail and product decisions. I can sit inside a distributed-systems problem, find the part that matters, and make it clear enough for a team, customer, or executive to act on.

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[email protected] · vallery.net · linkedin.com/in/jvallery

Areas of depth

What I know well

Professional experience

From support to product leadership

About thirty years of work, with the most detail where it best explains what I do now.

Oct 2025–present

VAST Data

VAST Data

Vice President, Cloud Product Management

I lead cloud product strategy across hyperscaler, neocloud, and AI-infrastructure opportunities.

  • Translate AI training and inference behavior into architecture, product direction, commercial models, partner work, and field guidance.
  • Connect persistent inference, KV cache, throughput, storage, and memory behavior to the economics of running AI systems.
  • Represent the cloud product point of view in customer, partner, analyst, and public conversations.
Sources
VAST DataVAST Forward 2026theCUBE / SiliconANGLE

Aug 2017–Oct 2025

Microsoft

Microsoft

Azure Storage product leadership

I led Azure Blob product work for demanding storage customers, including the Azure-side relationship supporting OpenAI and Microsoft AI.

  • Turned checkpointing, model distribution, high-concurrency reads, namespace, capacity, durability, and reliability needs into product priorities and operating mechanisms.
  • Led product managers and technical program managers across strategic customer engagement and the customer-facing Blob experience.
  • Worked across engineering through product ownership and dotted-line accountability. This was product and infrastructure leadership, not model research.
  • OpenAI named me under Microsoft Azure Support in its 2019 large-scale Dota 2 report.
Sources
OpenAIMicrosoftMicrosoft Tech CommunitySNIA Storage Developer Conference 2024

Apr 2013–Aug 2017

Microsoft

Microsoft

SharePoint Premier Field Engineer → Cloud Solution Architect

I moved from SharePoint field engineering into Microsoft’s early Azure field organization.

  • Designed cloud architectures, built proofs of concept, and helped customers and software partners move from on-premises products to Azure services.
  • Served as a technical escalation point and translated architecture choices into migration and business decisions.
  • Authored a five-file Azure Resource Manager quickstart for a high-IOPS VM and storage pool; the pull request and README follow-up both merged.
Sources
LinkedInGitHub / Azure

Jul 2012–Apr 2013

Neudesic

Neudesic

Pulse product management

I worked on product management for Pulse, Neudesic’s enterprise-social product. My formal public title was Director, Technical Solution Sales.

  • Connected customer and field requirements to product positioning, technical sales, and adoption guidance.
Sources
Redmond Magazine

May 2010–Jul 2012

Avanade

Avanade

Manager → Group Manager

I led SharePoint and Office 365 delivery for enterprise customers.

  • Directly managed distributed onshore and offshore engineers and project managers.
  • Owned delivery quality, staffing, escalation, customer communication, and technical direction.
Sources
LinkedIn

Oct 2008–May 2010

NewsGator Technologies

NewsGator Technologies

Technical Project Manager → Solution Architect

I led enterprise RSS and social-collaboration delivery for large SharePoint environments.

  • Moved from project management into solution architecture as the work became more technical.
Sources
LinkedIn

2001–Oct 2008

SHL Group

SHL Group

Support, software, solutions, and integration delivery

I progressed from client support into software development, solutions, project management, and technical integration delivery.

  • Built and delivered web recruitment and assessment systems and led HR-XML and SOAP integrations.
Sources
LinkedIn

1996–2001

Earlier work

Earlier work

IBM Global Services · University of Colorado

I began working in IT at fourteen and moved from university systems administration into enterprise support.

  • Administered AIX, Windows NT, and Novell systems and built Perl and JavaScript tools for the University of Colorado Office of Financial Aid.
  • Provided desktop and application support for Lucent Technologies while working for IBM Global Services.
Sources
LinkedInMicrosoft

Independent work

What I build outside the job

Side projects are how I test an idea against a real system instead of a slide.

2024–present

Verdify

I build an AI-assisted greenhouse control loop with my adult son. Deterministic ESP32 firmware owns safety; AI can tune only bounded parameters, and telemetry verifies the result.

See the work

2024–present

Personal agent fleet

I operate a private pod-per-repository fleet of coding agents on Kubernetes using GitOps, isolated worktrees, model routing, observability, and explicit controls.

See the work

2001–2016

Earlier products and projects

I founded Brio Solutions, ran NewsPicker and Mine Feed, and turned a Gmail contact-extraction utility into MineMyMail. Each began as a problem I wanted to solve for myself.

See the work

Education

A working education

I attended Front Range Community College for roughly three semesters while working full-time. I do not have a completed college degree. Most of my technical education came through work, public troubleshooting, independent projects, and continued hands-on practice.

Beyond the resume

The rest of the story

A resume is useful, but it leaves out why the work mattered to me. The About page tells that story; Work goes deeper on the systems; Speaking collects the talks and interviews.