Lou Godmer
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLou Godmer is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, highly scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure that powers planetary-scale services. He leads strategy, architecture and operations for a global computing platform while designing processes that enable cross-continental teams to operate services in real time without sacrificing culture or work–life balance. A hands-on engineer by background, Lou has contributed to notable open-source work such as enhancements to Microsoft’s Application Insights Node.js SDK, improving telemetry flexibility and reliability. He also brings entrepreneurial drive as Founder, CEO and CFO of Zawadibu Vintages, a Tanzanian wine startup seeking to export its first vintage in 2025 and support local entrepreneurship. Lou combines technical depth from roles across engineering and SDET at Microsoft with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School, blending systems thinking with operational and business leadership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Masters, Business Administration, Management and Operations at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of BusinessBachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Japanese, French
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
nodejs10
sdk10
testing10
observability9
distributed-tracing9
microsoft-azure8
azure8
logging8
azure-log-analytics6
azure-monitoring6
azure-application-insights6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-node.js
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Microsoft Application Insights SDK for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 16 PRs, 35 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lou focused on enhancing the `microsoft/applicationinsights-node.js` repository by adding features and improving its functionality. They introduced the capability to pass custom properties to the `trackMetric` API, expanding its flexibility. The user also implemented synchronous request tracking and fixed tests, contributing to improved reliability and functionality of the application insights SDK. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core features and data collection capabilities of the Node.js SDK.
node-jsapplication-insightsloggingobservabilitysdk
lmillott/DefinitelyTyped
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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