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Jason Robert
Principal Software Engineer
Jason Robert is a Principal Software Engineer in Microsoft's Azure Core CTO office, where he works on AI-driven engineering transformation and systems-architecture modernization across Azure.

Conductor: Deterministic orchestration for multi-agent AI workflows 

Conductor is an open-source CLI (MIT license, Microsoft org) that takes a different approach: you define your multi-agent workflows in YAML, and the routing between agents is deterministic. Jinja2 templates and expression evaluation handle conditions and branching. The orchestration layer consumes zero tokens. The structure is fixed at definition time—and that's the point.