Summary
Joshua Poulson is a Principal TPM at Microsoft with over three decades of hands-on technology and leadership experience, and 11 years in program and product roles within Microsoft specifically. He combines deep systems and software engineering roots with PMP and PMI-ACP credentials to shepherd complex releases, remote global teams, and high-stakes Linux and open-source initiatives into production. Known for translating between customers and engineers, he has repeatedly driven performance and innovation across program management, release management, and P&L-informed product decisions. His career spans influential roles at Canonical, Collabora, IBM and Informix, reflecting a rare blend of enterprise-scale delivery and open-source advocacy. Based in Ridgefield, WA, he brings an engineer’s curiosity and a strategist’s discipline—mentoring teams while pushing platform boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
MS Management in Science & Technology Management Software Engineering, MS Management in Science & Technology Management Software Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University
BS Computer Science Computer Science Math Management, BS Computer Science Computer Science Math Management at Widener University
Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English