Phil Smith
Principal Engineering Manager At Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Smith is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 23+ years at the company and 16 years of hands-on engineering experience, focused on systems software, enterprise deployment, and large-scale Windows application distribution. He led core efforts like Project Centennial and was the principal developer for MSI, AppX, and XAP deployment flows, shaping how Windows handles modern app packaging. Phil combines deep engineering and test experience across Windows setup, imaging, and deployment services with senior leadership that drives cross-team delivery and architecture. He contributes to open-source tooling in the systems space, notably improving proxy behavior and test coverage for the popular em-http-request asynchronous HTTP client. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs a strong University of Illinois mathematics and CS background with a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable platform features at scale. Colleagues know him for translating complex deployment constraints into robust, well-tested solutions that survive diverse enterprise environments.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, German
Stackoverflow
10,826reputation
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243answers
23questions
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Github Skills (25)
asynchronous10
async10
http10
proxy10
proxy-server10
ruby10
eventmachine10
proxies10
hadoop9
algorithm9
jinja29
linux9
bash9
newline9
yaml9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
igrigorik/em-http-request
Jul 2010 - Jul 2010
Asynchronous HTTP Client (EventMachine + Ruby)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the asynchronous HTTP client, `em-http-request`, focusing on proxy server functionalities. Their commits involved the implementation and modification of proxy server logic, including both tunneling and non-tunneling proxy configurations. The user also refactored the codebase to improve its structure and added unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of proxy configurations. Furthermore, the changes include modifications to the `encode_request` and `encode_query` methods to support proxy configurations correctly.
asynchronoushttp-clientrubyasyncio-uring
phs/sauce
Apr 2011 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1101 commits, 31 PRs, 120 pushes in 6 years
injectiondependency-injectioninjection-frameworkdependency-injection-framework
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