Andy Sterland
Principal PM Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Sterland is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with two decades of experience focused on developer tools and diagnostics. He leads the team responsible for Visual Studio’s diagnostic and profiling tools, enabling developers to debug everything from classic Windows Forms to cloud-native Azure applications. Based in Redmond, he brings deep institutional knowledge from a long tenure at Microsoft, progressing from Senior Program Manager to his current leadership role. Andy combines product strategy with technical empathy, translating complex runtime and performance telemetry into actionable tooling. His background in software engineering (BSc, University of Hull) underpins a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable developer experiences at scale. Colleagues know him for balancing stewardship of legacy scenarios with evolving cloud diagnostics in fast-changing developer ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software Engineering, BSc Software Engineering at University of Hull
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Github Skills (81)
reference-application10
asp-net-core10
design-patterns10
asp-net10
visual-studio10
azure-pipelines10
rest-api10
repository-pattern10
architecture10
efcore10
editor10
microsoft-edge10
clean-architecture10
solid-principles10
vertical-slice-architecture10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/IEDiagnosticsAdapter
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
IE Diagnostics Adapter is a standalone exe that enables tools to debug and diagnose IE11 using the Chrome remote debug protocol.
Contributions:47 commits, 13 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 3 months
chrome
andysterland/Lego
Apr 2022 - Oct 2025
Collection of Lego related files
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
recordlegodm
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