Derek Brown
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDerek Brown is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience shepherding teams that build, package, and deploy mobile and cross-platform APIs using Azure DevOps, Gradle for Android, and iOS toolchains. He progressed through engineering and test roles within Outlook and Office, blending deep quality engineering roots with hands-on feature development and release automation. Derek focuses on centralizing shared libraries and deployment pipelines to accelerate multi-platform delivery while maintaining high reliability. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs a BS in Computer Software Engineering with a long tenure at Microsoft, bringing institutional knowledge of large-scale product delivery and a pragmatic approach to developer tooling and CI/CD. An often-overlooked strength is his background in theater and AV tech, which informs his practical problem-solving and systems-integration mindset.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology
Github Skills (2)
revolution9
portable1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
skidad/lfpstreamkeepers
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 days
skidad/speedo
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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