Edwin Young
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Young is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 16+ years building and leading teams across Azure Cloud Shell and Azure Arc-enabled Servers from Redmond. He combines deep systems and datacenter management experience—dating back to managing thousands of Office/Lync servers—with hands-on involvement in cloud-native tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, Node.js, C#, and PowerShell. Edwin champions quality and test automation in open-source PowerShell projects (notably contributing to PSScriptAnalyzer and PowerShellGet test suites), reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability at scale. A Cambridge computer science graduate and former speech-recognition startup engineer, he brings both product-oriented engineering and operational rigor to highly visible services used by millions.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (12)
powershell10
test-framework10
pester10
package-management10
analyzer10
test-automation10
testing10
build-automation9
cicd7
formatter4
linter4
formatters4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/PowerShellGetv2
Sep 2018 - May 2019
PowerShellGet is the Package Manager for PowerShell
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 commits, 38 PRs, 43 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily contributed to the testing framework and test suite of the PowerShellGet package manager. Their work includes writing and modifying tests across various aspects of the package manager, such as module installation, publishing, and repository management. They also focused on ensuring test reliability by addressing intermittent failures and network-related issues, indicating a deep understanding of the testing environment and the package manager's functionality. Moreover, the user made changes to the build utilities, specifically to manage and manipulate the PSModulePath for testing purposes.
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PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Download ScriptAnalyzer from PowerShellGallery
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily contributed to the quality assurance aspect of the `psscriptanalyzer` repository. They focused on enhancing the test suite, adding new test cases for features like piping, and addressing issues related to error handling in tests. Furthermore, the user refactored tests to improve their clarity and maintainability. Their work resulted in a more robust and well-tested PowerShell script analyzer.
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