John Briggs
Principal Software Engineering Manager Azure High Performance Computing at Microsoft
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Briggs is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with 11 years at Microsoft and more than two decades of total engineering experience, currently leading Azure High Performance Computing efforts from Raleigh, NC. He has deep expertise in scaling version control and cloud services—having led work on Git, VFS for Git and Scalar to enable enterprise-scale monorepos like Windows and Office—and later drove observability and secure deployment for Azure Machine Learning using OpenTelemetry. A hands-on manager, he combines engineering, DevOps and automation skills (CI/CD, build/versioning, Windows/macOS installers) with product-level ownership of distributed systems and live-site hygiene. His background includes shipping developer tooling and production middleware (FaceFX) for resource-intensive workloads, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems know-how and cloud-native operations.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (22)
git10
build-script10
github-ci10
msbuild10
windows10
batchfile10
cicd10
automation10
script10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
batch10
automations10
csharp10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/scalar
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Scalar: A set of tools and extensions for Git to allow very large monorepos to run on Git without a virtualization layer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 60 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the Scalar project. They implemented changes to the CI/CD pipeline, including publishing installers as build artifacts for both Windows and macOS. Additionally, they updated the build process to integrate a derivative of CalVer, basing the build name on the source branch and generating versioning information. The user also upgraded the project to use .NET Core 3.1.101 and fixed a related build script.
virtualization
microsoft/VFSForGit
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 releases, 116 commits, 122 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the VFS for Git project by centralizing background prefetch logic and optimizing post-fetch job scheduling. They addressed build and installation issues, ensuring the project builds correctly on Windows by correctly passing required components to vswhere. The user also made key changes to the build and testing infrastructure, including improvements to init scripts, build drops and Windows script initialization, enhancing the overall developer experience and automation.
virtual-file-system
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