Heath Stewart
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarHeath Stewart is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building Windows and cross-platform terminal applications, currently based in Kirkland, WA. At Microsoft he focuses on backend and DevOps work—improving CLI tooling, installer reliability, build/versioning pipelines, and cryptography support across high-profile projects like GitHub’s official CLI, WiX Toolset, Azure SDK for .NET, and vswhere. He brings a pragmatic blend of C++, C#, PowerShell, and automation expertise, often tackling build-system edge cases, package/versioning quirks, and installer caching that quietly improve developer and user experiences. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing complex release processes and for thoughtful refactors that reduce future maintenance burden. Off-hours he’s an active outdoor enthusiast—cycling, hiking, climbing and snowshoeing the Pacific Northwest—which informs a steady, endurance-minded approach to long-running engineering challenges.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
3,140reputation
218kreached
107answers
5questions
azure
top-5%
Github Skills (43)
dependency-management10
caching10
git10
docker10
c-language10
net10
command-line-interface10
dotnet10
wix10
dockers10
rsa10
cicd10
asp-net10
iswix10
go10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vswhere
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:56 releases, 47 reviews, 147 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Heath primarily contributed to the project's infrastructure and testing setup. Their work included adding and modifying Docker test environments and scripts to create a more robust testing framework. They also added support for build automation and deployment, specifically related to signed releases and integrating MicroBuild support. Furthermore, they implemented enhancements to the build process and added and refined testing capabilities within the project.
visual-studio-2017installationslocatenewervisualstudio
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1961 reviews, 508 commits, 1194 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Heath implemented support for the CryptographyClient with EC support and added the initial implementation for the RsaCryptographicProvider. The code changes involve creating a new `CryptographyClient` with the support for Elliptic Curve support and the associated changes in `CryptographyClient.cs`. They also added a separate `KeyWrapAlgorithm` for handling key encryption. These commits demonstrate the user's skills in cryptography and backend development.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.