Chris Patterson
Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Patterson is a seasoned product leader with 14 years in software, currently a Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft after senior product leadership at GitHub. He specializes in developer tools and CI/CD, having worked on Team Build features for TFS/VSTS and contributed hands-on DevOps improvements to high-profile repos like microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks. Chris blends technical fluency—PowerShell and pipeline task engineering—with strategic product direction, shipping features that improve build/deploy reliability and developer experience. Based in Cary, NC, he has a background that uniquely combines music and computer science, reflecting a creative approach to systems design. Colleagues know him for bridging deep engineering detail and product vision to move complex developer workflows into production.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Music Computer Science, Music Computer Science at Appalachian State UniversityChapel Hill High School
English
Github Skills (8)
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
deploying10
msbuild10
cicd10
automation9
automations9
nuget9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Nov 2014 - Nov 2018
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:66 commits, 35 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Azure Pipelines tasks repository by modifying PowerShell scripts related to build and deployment processes. Their work included updates to tasks like MSBuild, VSBuild, and AzurePowerShell, adding features such as group support, picklists, and architecture selection. The user also addressed code review feedback and fixed issues related to quoting and NuGet package installation, ensuring the tasks' overall functionality and stability. Furthermore, the user added and updated various tasks.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
pied-piper-inc/popular-repos-web-app-kube
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
See the most popular repos on GitHub
Contributions:64 commits, 10 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 days
popular-repos
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