Howard Wolosky
Principal Engineering Manager at Mentors in Tech (MinT)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHoward Wolosky is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 25+ years of cross-platform engineering experience and a deep commitment to the Web and open source. He has led product and platform work across Edge PWAs, Windows apps, and developer tooling, and was instrumental in open-sourcing Windows Calculator and creating widely used projects like StoreBroker and PowerShellForGitHub (222k+ downloads). A hands-on architect and manager, he builds teams, mentors engineers (including running onboarding and career coaching programs), and drives measurable impact through automation that saved millions in effort. His background ranges from shipping core phone and calling features to improving developer productivity in Visual Studio and the Microsoft Store, reflecting rare breadth across consumer UX and developer systems. Based in Seattle, he still mentors university students and volunteers teaching computer science, blending technical leadership with community-focused mentorship.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Science & Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Science & Information Systems at Rutgers Business SchoolParsippany Hills High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
powershell10
api10
drupal-module10
package-development10
github9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/PowerShellForGitHub
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Microsoft PowerShell wrapper for GitHub API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 156 reviews, 136 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Howard's primary contribution focused on refactoring the PowerShell module to use PascalCase for all parameters, resolving issue #29. This involved modifying the `GitHubAnalytics.psm1` file to update parameter naming conventions. Additionally, the user updated the copyright headers for relevant files across `GitHubAnalytics.psm1`, `GitHubLabels.psm1`, `Tests/GitHubAnalytics.tests.ps1`, and `Tests/GitHubLabels.tests.ps1`. Further restructuring and refactoring of the module to v0.2.0, adding more GitHub API support and securing of authentication was done by the user.
apimicrosoft-powershellazure-pipelinespowershellpowershell-wrapper
HowardWolosky/StoreBroker
May 2019 - Feb 2024
A PowerShell module that leverages the Windows Store Submission API to allow easy automation of application submissions to the Windows Store.
Contributions:84 pushes, 83 branches in 4 years 9 months
apisubmissionsleverageswindowswindows-store
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