PrimaryCentennial Middle School, Vocal Point
A Brief History of Bosnia-Herzegovina
This is the surviving March 1996 byline. I wrote and helped publish other material, while another student built the original HTML platform.
Sources and further reading
If you want to dig further, start here.
This page collects the public links behind the dates, roles, talks, projects, and writing mentioned across the site. Most readers can ignore it.
How to read the list
Four kinds of source, kept in one place.
Primary means a direct artifact such as my code, a historical page, or a first-party record. Official means an institution’s program, filing, roster, report, or publication. Independent means a third party describes the same event, role, or work. Personal account is my own public description, used when the experience itself is the subject.
A link may cover only one detail, so each note says why it is here and any context worth knowing. If a better source changes something on the site, I will correct the new copy while leaving already-published articles intact.
I leave personnel records, archived contacts, confidential employer material, health and financial information, third-party identities, and uncleared media out of this public list, even when they helped settle a date or detail.
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Origin and early web
PrimaryThinkQuest archive
Shooting for the Stars — ThinkQuest entry 3516
This archived site lists all three student creators from the inaugural 1996 program.
PrimaryBoulder Valley School District archive
BVSD guide4 page and Internet Guide directory
This archived page connects my name to the rotating guide4 student account in February 1997.
PrimaryGoogle Groups
January–February 1998 Perl and IIS discussions
One of six surviving threads from early 1998, when I was learning Perl and IIS in public.
PrimaryBoulder Linux Users Group
Exposed Boulder Linux Users Group archive
The public archive contains 72 messages under my name from 1999 through 2011.
Official23andMe
Siblings: Mandy and Jason’s 23andMe Story
The official 2016 television and customer story about Mandy and me finding each other through DNA.
IndependentLongmont Leader
Remembering the past: Longmont visited by Emperor and Empress of Japan
Longmont Leader’s account of the Emperor and Empress of Japan’s three-day stay at the Pratt home in 1994.
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Career
Personal accountLinkedIn
Jason Vallery professional profile
My public professional profile provides a broad career timeline. Exact employer dates on this site were reconciled separately.
IndependentRedmond Magazine
Worldwide Windows Azure Storage Outage
Redmond Magazine identifies me as Neudesic’s director of technical solution sales in February 2013.
OfficialVAST Data
Jason Vallery — VAST Forward speaker profile
My current employer’s speaker profile, including my VAST role and earlier Azure Storage work.
03
AI and cloud infrastructure
OfficialOpenAI
Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning
The acknowledgments list me under Microsoft Azure Support. My work was product and infrastructure underneath the models.
OfficialMicrosoft
OpenAI transforms AI model development with Azure Blob Storage
Microsoft’s account of the Azure Blob and OpenAI partnership, including workload scale and the service capabilities built around it.
OfficialMicrosoft Tech Community
How Azure Storage Powers AI Workloads
A technical follow-up on Scaled Accounts and Blobfuse2, capabilities that became available to other Azure customers.
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Speaking and public record
OfficialSNIA Storage Developer Conference 2024
Supercharging OpenAI Training with Microsoft’s Azure Blob Storage
The official page for the 2024 session Jegan Devaraju and I delivered together.
OfficialMicrosoft Learn
Azure Storage solutions: App development and Kubernetes workloads
The complete video of my 2021 session, including the title card used for the program.
OfficialFederal Trade Commission
FTC post-trial proposed findings in FTC v. Meta
The filing notes that my recorded deposition was played in court and later cited by the FTC. It is the FTC’s proposed findings, not the court’s decision.
OfficialVAST Forward 2026
Building A Suite of Cloud Data Services for AI Training and Inference
The official program page for my February 2026 session on cloud data services for AI training and inference.
IndependenttheCUBE / SiliconANGLE
Cloud operating model and its impact on data and AI strategies
A third-party interview about persistent agents, AI infrastructure, and the cloud operating model.
OfficialCity of Longmont
The Coming AI Revolution: From Arithmetic to Abundance
The City of Longmont listing for my December 2025 keynote and the launch of NextWave.
OfficialLongmont Area Democrats
AI Comes Home: Work, Power, and Democracy in the Age of Applied AI
The organizer’s event page and follow-up materials for the June 2026 talk. There is no public recording of my segment.
OfficialLongmont Rotary
AI Comes Home — post-event recap
The host’s recap and stage photograph from my July 2026 talk.
OfficialISC West 2018
Access Control and Video in the Cloud
The archived conference page lists Patrick Barry and me as presenters for this 2018 session.
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Community
OfficialMicrosoft
Giving Hero: I Have a Dream, Boulder County
Microsoft’s 2013 profile connects my Dreamer story, return as a sponsor, and Microsoft field-engineering role.
OfficialI Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County
I Have a Dream Foundation board roster, April 2024 capture
The archived 2024 roster lists me as Board Chair. The current roster names my successor.
OfficialBoulder County Clerk archive
2003 Coordinated Election results
Boulder County’s election page reports 1,331 votes and 28.24 percent. A separate City worksheet appears to contain a ten-vote handwritten transcription error.
PrimaryLongmont NextWave Initiative
Longmont NextWave Initiative mission
The public mission for NextWave: education and literacy, economic resilience, and data dignity.
OfficialSt. Baldrick’s Foundation
Jason Vallery — St. Baldrick’s participant page
The official participant page for my 2020 virtual head-shave, including the reported $1,679 total.
05
Building and code
PrimaryJason Vallery / Internet Archive
Historical vallery.net captures
These captures helped re-establish the dates, routes, and text of articles first published on earlier versions of vallery.net. I left out comments, trackers, old contact details, third-party writing, and media I did not clear.
PrimaryGitHub / Azure
High-IOPS Azure Resource Manager template, PR 239
The original pull request added five files and 614 lines and merged the same day. Azure revised the code later.
OfficialFederal Communications Commission
FCC Universal Licensing System dataset
ULS record 2401564 covers my former Technician-class KC0MYJ license. I intentionally exclude the address fields.
PrimaryStack Overflow
MineMyMail public answer and product lineage
A public answer connecting me to MineMyMail and showing how the product was used.
PrimaryVerdify
Verdify — About
The About page names my role and James’s role and explains why we use a working greenhouse to test the system.
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Creative work
OfficialDestination Colorado
Destination Colorado 2018 planner guide
Destination Colorado credits “Longs Peak by Jason Vallery” in its 2018 planner guide.
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