Bridget Kromhout
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBridget Kromhout is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale cloud and DevOps systems. She blends deep operational expertise—from running high-traffic sites and containerized platforms to cost-optimizing AWS infrastructure—with developer advocacy, conference organizing, and technical storytelling. A seasoned technical writer and contributor to prominent open-source projects like Helm and devopsdays, she focuses on documentation quality, UX tweaks, and training materials that make complex tooling accessible. Known in the community as a podcaster and speaker, she pairs practical platform engineering skills with a talent for shepherding teams and projects to production readiness. Based in Minneapolis, she still identifies with #opslife and prefers meaningful outreach over recruiter spam.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
devopsdays/devopsdays-web
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
This is the website for devopsdays
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 6757 commits, 4085 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bridget's commits focus on adjusting the display of event logos within the website. They made minor changes to an HTML shortcode to ensure logos do not appear too large, improving the visual layout of the event pages. These changes focused on the front-end presentation of the content, indicating a focus on UI/UX improvements within the DevOpsDays website.
devopsdays
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Apr 2014 - May 2016
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:990 commits, 814 PRs, 614 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bridget primarily contributed to the website code for the devopsdays website. Their work involved modifying HTML and related files to update event information such as venue, dates, and registration details for the Minneapolis 2014 event, and the creation of new content pages. They updated the design and program pages, and also added sponsor and contact information.
devopsdays
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