Drew Cross
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Cross is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years at Microsoft driving data-driven OS and system improvements through large-scale telemetry, experimentation, and big data analysis. He has led and grown engineering teams, mentoring engineers from junior to senior levels while owning technical design decisions for features like Restricted Standby, battery and system hygiene optimizations, and an Azure power capping capability that delivered over $40M in annual savings. His toolkit spans R, C/C++, Java, Python, SQL and both Windows kernel and statistical programming, enabling a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and advanced analytics. Drew has architected scalable microservices to dynamically configure OS features across vast fleets, demonstrating strong cross-org collaboration and product impact focus. Based in Bothell, WA, he combines a pragmatic leadership style with hands-on engineering, often pairing experimentation strategy with telemetry to turn noisy data into measurable product improvements. An early background in computer vision and robotics adds an unconventional angle to his systems and analytics skillset.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A.S., Engineering, A.S., Engineering at Black Hawk Community CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (18)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
consumption10
visual-studio10
vscode10
code-documentation9
disable5
greasemonkey4
tampermonkey4
userscripts3
adblock1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drew212/CS423
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:51 commits in 2 months
drew212/vscode
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiontypescriptvisual-studio
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