Josh Free
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Free is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over two decades of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior engineering leadership roles focused on .NET and Azure SDKs. He has driven cross-cutting efforts across .NET Core, framework compatibility, and Azure developer tooling, combining deep backend and DevOps expertise with release engineering improvements. Based in Redmond, he shepherds SDK and platform teams that enable millions of developers to build cloud-native applications. Josh is an active open-source contributor—his work on corefxlab included improving build/versioning and modernizing package tooling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on developer productivity. Colleagues describe him as a technical steward who balances long-term platform vision with the nitty-gritty of build systems and compatibility. He brings institutional knowledge from Windows and Visual Studio eras to today’s cloud-native challenges, helping teams evolve large codebases safely.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
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Github contributions (5)
dotnet/corefxlab
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
This repo is for experimentation and exploring new ideas that may or may not make it into the main corefx repo.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:74 commits, 87 PRs, 90 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed to build and package scripts, modifying the build process to incorporate build numbers and versioning. They also addressed build breaks related to renaming of methods in the codebase. Furthermore, the user updated the project's package information, including the description, tags, and project file. Additionally, the user made changes to remove .NET Core 1.0 from the build and install scripts.
corefxexperimentation
joshfree/corefxlab
Apr 2015 - Apr 2019
This repo is for experimentation and exploring new ideas that may or may not make it into the main corefx repo.
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
corefxexperimentation
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