Kaleb Luedtke is an Associate Product Manager and IoT-focused innovation lead with seven years of engineering and product experience, currently driving connected-product strategy at Johnson Controls. He pairs a Masters in Engineering Management with hands-on technical chops—from CNC machining and A/V systems to improving backend tooling—enabling him to translate complex technical requirements into pragmatic product roadmaps. At Johnson Controls he progressed from engineering excellence lead to product management, streamlining processes and leading cross-functional teams to deliver connectivity solutions. An active Microsoft MVP and WinGet community moderator, he contributes to the widely used winget-cli and winget-pkgs repos, improving logging, admin settings, and CI/test automation for the Windows Package Manager. Known for reducing operational friction and finding efficiency gains (e.g., cutting catering labor through process redesign), he brings a practical, improvement-focused mindset to product delivery.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering Management, Masters of Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering
The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:11745 reviews, 8355 commits, 31404 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kaleb's contributions focused on improving the build and testing infrastructure of the winget-pkgs repository. They updated the build process to incorporate PSScriptAnalyzer to maintain code quality standards. Furthermore, the user enhanced the testing environment by implementing changes to utilize HttpClient over WebClient. This included the addition of a workflow for the use of ScriptAnalyzer.
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:449 reviews, 37 commits, 117 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaleb's commits primarily focus on enhancing the logging and user setting functionality within the `winget-cli` repository. They implemented features to control the logging level, including handling invalid inputs, and added functionality related to the management of administrator settings. The user also addressed several bugs, ensuring more accurate and consistent behavior, and improved the user experience for the `show` command. The contributions touch upon core functionality of the CLI.
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