John Keech
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Keech is a Staff/Principal software engineer with 15 years of experience focused on developer productivity and AI-assisted tooling, currently building GitHub Copilot to help developers be more productive. He spent over a decade at Microsoft driving Visual Studio IntelliCode, Codespaces, and core developer services, progressing from hands-on engineering to senior management and principal roles. John combines deep systems and tooling expertise with product-minded execution, shipping features that scale to millions of users. His background includes research on high-performance data structures at Texas A&M and early work delivering web solutions and IT tooling, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and practical end-to-end engineering. Known for enabling developer workflows, he quietly bridges large-scale platform architecture with everyday developer ergonomics. Based in the United States, he brings consistent delivery and a long-term commitment to improving how software gets built.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (135)
github10
pair-programming10
publish10
visual-studio10
specification10
command-line-tool10
simplify10
dotnet10
editor10
visual-studio-extension10
golang10
cli10
database10
json10
git10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jkeech/Super-Space-Escape
May 2011 - May 2011
Contributions:53 commits in 7 days
jkeech/cli
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
GitHub’s official command line tool
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
command-line-toolcli-appcommand-linecli
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