Phil Hodgson
Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPhil Hodgson is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over a decade leading engineering teams on the Azure DevOps Services platform, advancing from individual contributor roles on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to senior management. He blends hands-on backend development—evidenced by contributions to the widely used microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks repo improving npm registry support and robustness—with strategic leadership of cross-functional delivery. Based in Redmond, he focuses on scalable CI/CD tooling and developer experience, mentoring teams to ship reliable, production-grade services. His long tenure at Microsoft and earlier web leadership roles reveal a practitioner who still dives into core code changes while shaping platform direction.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at University of Tasmania
Github Skills (8)
azure-pipelines10
npm10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript8
cicd8
error-handling7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Nov 2016 - Apr 2022
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 29 commits, 40 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily focused on enhancing the Azure Pipelines tasks, particularly around npm registry support, adding functionality for views within npm registry values. They modified core files to accommodate these changes, including modifications to the `util.ts` and `npmregistry.ts` files. Additionally, the user contributed to logging and error handling improvements, making the code more robust.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
phil-hodgson/vsts-cli
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
visual-studioteam-servicesdotnetmicrosoft-visual-studioteam-studio
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.