Andrew Brown
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Brown is a Principal Product Manager based in Redmond with a long, hands-on career at Microsoft focused on update infrastructure, Azure device update services, and Windows Update across mobile and desktop platforms. He blends product vision and program execution—defining multi-year modernization strategies while leading feature teams, writing functional specs, and managing complex cross-group programs. His background spans cloud services, mobile development, online communities and games, giving him a rare mix of systems-level engineering empathy and customer-facing UX sensibility. He has deep experience negotiating with influencers and coordinating large events from his earlier Community Program Manager work, which informs his strong customer engagement and stakeholder management skills. Known for shepherding critical, large-scale update scenarios (from Windows Phone to IoT device updates), he thrives on turning complex update and deployment requirements into reliable production services.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Social Sciences, BA, Social Sciences at Biola University
Github Skills (12)
azure10
microsoft-azure10
microsoft10
agent8
yocto7
iot7
mqtt6
yocto-project6
embedded5
sdk4
azure-services3
azure-sdk1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andrewbrownmsft/iot-hub-device-update
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Device Update for IoT Hub agent
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 11 days
agentdevice-managementiot-hubmqttupdate
Azure/meta-raspberrypi-adu
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 reviews, 25 comments in 5 months
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