Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer at Google.[1] Previously a Microsoft Technical Fellow, PowerShell Chief Architect, and the Chief Architect for Windows Server and the Azure Infrastructure and Management group which includes Azure Stack,[2] System Center and Operations Management Suite.[3] Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell and was the chief architect for Windows Server.[4]
Jeffrey Snover | |
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 Snover at the Professional Developers Conference 2009 Technical Leaders Panel | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of New Hampshire |
| Occupation(s) | Programmer, Chief Architect, Site Reliability Engineer |
| Employer | |
| Known for | PowerShell, Windows Server, Azure Stack |
| Title | Distinguished Engineer |
Biography
editAfter studying, but not receiving a degree in, physics at the University of New Hampshire (1978–1982), Snover worked as architect and development manager for Tivoli NetView at Tivoli Software (IBM), and as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects. He also worked at Storage Technology Corporation, and various start-up companies.[5] Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction for Microsoft's management technologies and products.[5]
Snover is known primarily as the "father" and chief architect of Microsoft's object-oriented command line interpreter Windows PowerShell, whose development began under the codename "Monad" (msh) at the beginning of 2003. He had the idea of an object-pipeline and implemented the first prototype in the C# programming language. After the completion of version 1.0 in November 2006, Windows PowerShell was downloaded nearly one million times within half a year. In 2015, Microsoft promoted Snover to Technical Fellow.[6] In 2019 he was the AI architect for M365 substrate and became the CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation.
Snover was also the Chief Architect of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
In 2022 he left Microsoft and became an SRE Google Distinguished Engineer.
Snover held eight patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since.[7][8] He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.[5]
Snover had also starred in a video series known as "Getting Started With Powershell", available on Microsoft Virtual Academy.[9]
References
edit- ^ "LinkedIn - Jeffrey Snover Profile". LinkedIn. LinkedIn.
- ^ "Azure Stack - It's More Radical Than You Think". Channel 9. Microsoft.
- ^ "WinOps". WinOps. WinOps.
- ^ "The Cultural Battle To Remove Windows from Windows Server". YouTube. Devops Enterprise 2015 Talk.
- ^ a b c "Jeffrey Snover Windows Server". Microsoft Server. Microsoft. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^ Schwartz, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Snover Promoted to Microsoft Technical Fellow". RedMond.
- ^ "Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Snover". Jastia Patents. Justia Patents.
- ^ "Jeffrey Snover". Events: Speakers. Channel 9. Microsoft.
- ^ markdefalco. "Getting Started with Microsoft PowerShell". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
Bibliography
edit- Snover, Jeffrey: Monad Manifesto – the Origin of Windows PowerShell, 2007
- Grigoreanu, Valentina; Brundage, James; Bahna, Eric; Burnett, Margaret; ElRif, Paul; Snover, Jeffrey (2009). "Males' and Females' Script Debugging Strategies". Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development. IS-EUD 2009. LNCS. Vol. 5435. pp. 205–224. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00427-8_12. ISBN 978-3-642-00425-4. ISSN 0302-9743.
Further reading
edit- Oakley, Andy (2005). Monad (AKA PowerShell). O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-10009-4.
- Jones, Don; Hicks, Jeffery (2010). Windows PowerShell 2.0: TFM (3rd ed.). Sapien Technologies. ISBN 978-0-9821314-2-8.