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Jason Cusati

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Professional Summary

Results-oriented technical executive and principal engineer with deep experience leading platform architecture, data integration, and SaaS operations. Specialized in Azure (Data Factory, Storage, Key Vault), large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines, automation, and end-to-end delivery. Proven record building teams, accelerating migrations, and embedding AI/ML to increase quality and speed of software delivery.

Professional Experience

April 2026 -- May 2026
Virginia Tech — Blacksburg, VA
Graduate Research Assistant -- ARCADE Lab (PI: Dr. Afsari)
  • Designed and built cloud infrastructure for the Multi Robot System (MRS) for Remote Construction Progress Monitoring, including network architecture, mesh VPN, REST API, and Web UI.
  • Built Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines for repeatable environment provisioning and deployment.
  • Hardened the platform with 2FA on the Web UI, secured video streaming, and instrumented audit logging across services.
  • Stabilized robot connection leases and improved Web UI performance under sustained streaming load.
2024--2025
Yoh, A Day & Zimmerman Company — Remote, SC
ADF Solution Architect -- Core Specialty Insurance
  • Led a small SDE team delivering V1 of an Insurance Data Ingestion Platform for a specialty carrier: extended Microsoft's Common Data Model into a domain schema for the carrier's data types; reduced time-to-ingest by 50%.
  • Architected and implemented an API to orchestrate Azure Data Factory pipelines and data flows.
  • Used Claude as engineering partner to scaffold pipeline code and generate ADF source-to-target mappings; hand-implemented the more complex transformation and validation logic.
  • Built a Streamlit UI integrated with the Data Ingestion API for faster analyst feedback loops.
2021--2023
Duck Creek Technologies — Columbia, SC
Senior Technical Architect -- OnDemand SaaS Operations
  • Led first client launch on accelerated 3-month timeline with automated deployments to Azure Storage, Key Vault, Redis, and Docker.
  • Led customer through launch of 1st client on accelerated timeline of 3 months with fully automated deployment to Azure Storage Services, Key Vault, Redis cache, and Docker containers using a combination of ADO and Octopus Server, via Bash and PowerShell scripts, working within the SaFe framework.
  • Participated in launch of 1st client on accelerated timeline of 3 months with fully automated deployment.
  • Designed end-to-end data integration/transformation across hybrid SaaS systems.
  • Architected robust and adaptive end-to-end data integration and data transformation solutions, utilizing hybrid hosted single-node and shared SaaS applications with integrations across multiple third-party applications and service providers.
  • Drove ADF implementation connecting Duck Creek data with customer Data Lakes.
  • Built deployment analysis framework (C#, PowerShell, Octopus, ADO) eliminating 75% of deployment issues.
  • Developed Python algorithm to predict Sev 1 incidents from logs.
  • Analyzed server logs and predicted Sev 1 cases through creation of AI algorithm written in Python, using scikit-learn.
  • Coordinated in PEN testing and consulted on risk mitigation options for pre go-live security assessment.
  • Developed Azure Authentication flow for SSO integration into on-premise, cloud-hosted, and third-party applications.
  • Saved hundreds of hours by developing automated upgrade scripts for a 3-year-old Octopus instance.
  • Saved hundreds of hours of manual clicking by developing automated upgrade scripts written in PowerShell for a 3-year-old Octopus instance and overseeing multiple exception cases.
2016--2020
Blackbaud — Charleston, SC
Principal Engineer -- Sustained Engineering
  • Delivered root-cause production fixes across enterprise products using C#, SQL, and performance tooling; achieved 100% resolution on critical cases.
  • Cut deployment time and customer involvement by 50% via DevOps scripting and YAML pipelines.
  • Reduced deployment time and customer involvement by 50% by engineering DevOps scripts for custom code deployment to Azure multi-tenant environments, standardizing Azure pipelines using continuous deployment YAML scripts and NuGet artifact management, and single package deployments.
  • Met 100% SLA for Tier 3 support, improving VB.NET, C#, and Java systems.
  • Designed SAML 2.0 SSO component; published REST APIs to Azure using Swagger-based codegen.
  • Boosted security and user administration by designing and implementing SSO component for enterprise CRM product by utilizing SAML 2.0 protocol. Unilaterally designed all SAML plug-ins.
  • Enabled automation generation and publication of APIs to Azure by constructing REST Web Services for enterprise product API and framework using Swagger Code Generation CLIs.
  • Finalized DevOps continuous deployment process for customer application software development by automating delivery of component software library and customer-specific integration code into single deployment package.
  • Enhanced staff development and performance by training and leading junior staff members.
  • Collaborated with Microsoft consultants to build fully customizable bulk import tool using Angular, Node.JS, and HTML 5.0.
2011--2016
Blackbaud — Charleston, SC
Solution Architect -- Enterprise Professional Services
  • Led multiple enterprise implementations from architecture to go-live; coordinated global teams.
  • Designed full CRM integrations and migration strategies, reducing timelines by 50%.
  • Built Azure environments for development and CI/CD.
  • Devised cohesive view of implementation projects across business unit with consistent issue tracking system through execution of Atlassian suite of tools to decrease project overruns.
  • Steered enterprise data migration projects for client with 10M+ constituents and 1B+ records across US and European Union, ensuring compliance with national data laws.
  • Conducted deep-dive on existing data conversion processes and executed improvement plan by generating automated Validation Scripts in SQL Server and automating the iterative conversion process.
2005--2011
DJJayNet Consulting — Arlington, VA
Software Engineering Consultant
  • Integrated user interfaces with Crestron touch hardware using custom .NET controls.
  • Implemented REST APIs with Entity Framework and C#.
  • Created back-end REST API for multi-dwelling concierge system in Trump Towers South Beach via utilization of C# .NET.

Education

2027 (exp.)
Ph.D., Computer Science (SE with AI/ML/MI), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2026 (exp.)
M.S., Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
B.S., Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Selected Projects & Research

LLM Coding Assistant — Python, Streamlit, OpenAI API; FastAPI backend; agentmon design.
Security Vulnerability Classifier — Repository scanner classifying code against CVE mappings.
Sentiment Analysis of Yelp Reviews — Python, Pandas, NLTK; topic modeling with LDA.
Predicting NFL Player Performance — Time-series modeling using ML regressors.

Publications

Journal Articles

2026
Virginia Tech Transportation Safety Index (VTTSI) — Jason Cusati, Cheng-Shun Chuang . arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.21154
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2025
Exploring the Evidence-Based SE Beliefs of Generative AI Tools — Chris Brown, Jason Cusati . arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13900
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Conference Proceedings

2026
From Papers to Progress: Rethinking Knowledge Accumulation in Software Engineering — Jason Cusati, Chris Brown . Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026)
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Technical Skills

Platforms

Windows; Linux; IIS; Apache; Tomcat

Tools

SQL Server; MySQL; Oracle; Access; PostgreSQL; .NET; AngularJS; Entity Framework; jQuery; Atlassian; TeamCity; Azure; Azure API; AWS; ADO; Docker; Octopus; Android Studio; IntelliJ; Eclipse; R Studio; VS Code; PyCharm; Wireshark; Streamlit; FastAPI

Languages

C#; Java; Python; JavaScript; Kotlin; VB.NET; PowerShell; Bash; T-SQL; HTML 5.0; CSS; ASP.NET; C; C++; Groovy; Objective C; PHP; Scala; Node.js; Vue.js; Gradle

AI/ML

scikit-learn; TensorFlow; KNN; RNN; CNN; LSTM; LLM; SVM; Linear Regression; Random Forest; Naive Bayes; Feature Engineering

Miscellaneous Experience

Awards and Achievements

May 2026
Phi Kappa Phi, inducted member --- national honor society recognizing academic excellence across all disciplines.
May 2026
Omicron Delta Kappa, inducted member --- national leadership honor society.
2008
Customer Service Award, LimeLeap Professional Services.

Certification

  • Certified Jira & Confluence Administrator
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)

References

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