Jeff Stokes
Principal Escalation Engineer
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Stokes is a Principal Escalation Engineer with 11+ years of focused experience resolving high-impact Windows OS issues for enterprise customers, currently leading third-tier escalations at Tanium. A master debugger and performance analyst, he specializes in Windows event tracing, WinDbg, and network tracing to untangle complex production problems at scale. He pairs deep technical chops with mentoring and training, having shaped teams and customer engagements in roles from Distinguished Engineer to Director of Technical Account Management. Jeff’s background includes years of on-site enterprise support at Microsoft and hands-on operations across finance and dot-com environments, giving him a rare blend of field experience and platform-level insight. Notably, he built and ran his own IT services business early in his career, demonstrating operational leadership and customer-focused problem solving. Based in Atlanta, he’s known simply as a “Windows guy” whose practical expertise repeatedly converts opaque system telemetry into reliable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Decontamination, Decontamination at United States Army CBRN School
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (117)
windows10
microsoft-azure10
docker-desktop10
azure-stream-analytics10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
windows-driver10
steam9
azure9
consumption9
shim9
vdi9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
jeffstokes72/Perf-Templates
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
jeffstokes72/diskspd
Nov 2015 - Jul 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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