Neil Hodgkinson
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Little Elm, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Hodgkinson is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft with over 25 years in IT and a decade of product-focused experience driving cloud and hybrid collaboration solutions. He progressed through technical and customer-facing engineering roles into senior program and product leadership, bringing deep institutional knowledge of SharePoint and Office 365 hybrid deployments. A PhD-trained scientist in chemistry and computer science from The University of Manchester, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with hands-on scripting and automation—evident in contributions configuring hybrid SharePoint environments and PowerShell tooling in the popular pnp/PnP-Tools repository. Based in Little Elm, Texas, Neil excels at translating complex platform integration challenges into practical product features and operational runbooks. Colleagues rely on him for bridging engineering, support, and customer needs to deliver reliable enterprise collaboration experiences.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Chemistry and Computer Science, PhD Chemistry and Computer Science at The University of ManchesterSt Patricks High School
English
Github Skills (9)
powershell10
user-authentication10
authentication10
sharepoint10
scripting10
workflow-management9
azure4
cicd4
microsoft-azure4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pnp/PnP-Tools
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Scripts and tools for Office 365 and SharePoint - More for IT Pro's
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to configuring and validating a hybrid SharePoint environment. Their work included creating and modifying PowerShell scripts to automate hybrid search, authentication, and app configuration. They also developed scripts for validating and remediating issues related to the hybrid deployment, particularly focusing on trusted security token issuers and workflow configurations. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of SharePoint's hybrid functionalities.
office365sharepoint
nellymo/OfficeDocs-SharePoint
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business documentation
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
sharepointonedrive-for-businessonedrivesharepoint-onlinespfx
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