Mario Hewardt
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Addison Wesley
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMario Hewardt is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Azure Office of the CTO at Microsoft, leading the Sysinternals team across Linux, Windows, and Mac while driving platform work for cloud management and developer tooling. With nearly two decades at Microsoft, he blends deep Windows and .NET internals expertise—authoring Advanced Windows Debugging and Advanced .NET Debugging—with hands-on SaaS and observability experience, including work on Asset Inventory Service and Windows Intune. He also serves as the worldwide technical lead for Azure App Consults and has a strong customer-facing background as a Principal Premier Field Engineer. An active open-source contributor, Mario helped add core .NET Core dump generation and advanced triggers to the widely used ProcDump-for-Linux tool, reflecting his knack for bridging low-level internals and cloud-native needs. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs technical authorship and frequent speaking engagements with leadership that moves diagnostics and platform capabilities forward.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Montana State University-BozemanAssociates Technical Studies, Associates Technical Studies at Gripen Technical College
English, Swedish, Slovak, German
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Github Skills (13)
c1710
debugging10
debug10
c1110
cli10
netcore9
linux8
coredump6
azure6
shared-memory6
azure-application-insights6
cpu-usage6
webservice6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 25 reviews, 94 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Mario contributed to the core functionality of the ProcDump-for-Linux tool, specifically focusing on the .NET Core dump generation feature. They implemented support for generating core dumps, addressed memory management issues, and incorporated improvements based on code reviews. Furthermore, the user added new triggers, including thread and file descriptor triggers, and introduced the polling interval option, enhancing the tool's monitoring capabilities.
debugging-toolsysinternalslinuxcli
microsoft/SysmonCommon
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
The common parts of the Sysinternals Sysmon tool shared between the Windows and Linux versions.
Contributions:5 reviews, 19 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 10 months
windowssysmonpartslinuxsysinternals
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