Drew Johnson
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Johnson is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of experience turning complex engineering work into user-facing products, currently leading Browser Essentials for Microsoft Edge. He blends hands-on engineering roots—shipping SDKs like WinObjC and architecting telemetry and failure-reporting systems—with product leadership that prioritizes measurable user impact. Drew’s background spans security-grade networking at McAfee to enabling Objective-C and Android developers to target Windows, giving him a rare cross-platform perspective on developer and consumer workflows. He champions global-ready software, having driven Visual Studio’s World Ready practices and localization testing at scale. Notably, he has contributed telemetry instrumentation to the prominent microsoft/WinObjC project, surfacing actionable insights from build processes. Based in Saint Paul, MN, Drew pairs pragmatic technical depth with a focus on making everyday browsing and development tooling more capable and accessible.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Carleton College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
azure-application-insights10
telemetry10
app-insights10
automation9
automations9
windows9
build-system8
objective-c4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WinObjC
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Objective-C for Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Drew focused on adding instrumentation and telemetry to the `vsimporter` tool, which is likely responsible for importing or converting build configurations. Their contributions included integrating application insights for monitoring and diagnostics, using the WBITelemetry library to track events related to the import process. They also worked on simplifying telemetry opt-in and tracking project and solution folder types. Further, they modified the executables and libraries related to App Insights and telemetry to implement new features and track build processes.
objective-cwindows
microsoft/WinObjC-Samples
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Sample apps and code for the Windows Bridge for iOS
Contributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 11 months
bridgeiossample-appswindows
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