Kesean Woodhouse
I build and integrate the systems that connect engineering teams to the customers, analysts, and stakeholders downstream of them.
Six years across Microsoft and Stripe building and operating backend systems, data pipelines, and integrations. Most recently on Microsoft's cloud security team, where I built automated risk-management tooling that took manual work off engineers' plates, stood up production monitoring for a team of internal analysts, and maintained the Azure pipelines that ingested security telemetry. Earlier at Microsoft, I shipped C#/XAML features for the Tips app.
I started in tech retail at Microsoft's flagship NYC store before moving into engineering, and that customer-first lens has shown up in every role since. My strongest work has lived in the connective tissue between systems: pipelines that make things talk to each other, integrations that get used, tooling and monitoring that keep things running without constant hands-on intervention. I'm comfortable across C#, Python, PowerShell, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern cloud platforms (Azure, Vercel, Railway).
I'm currently doing self-directed project work to stay sharp on modern development and cloud tooling, and I'm open to software engineering, technical program management, operations, and support roles. Remote or Seattle-area. You can also see this story compressed onto a single page → Resume
A chatbot integration project, built as hands-on practice.
Golem is a chatbot that answers technical questions in a structured format: summary, root cause, debug steps, relevant docs. I built it as practice wiring a full application together across services: auth, a backend API, a deployed frontend, CI, and end-to-end tests, to stay current with modern tooling after time focused on other work.