Sean Wheeler
Principal Content Developer at Microsoft
Denton, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Wheeler is a Principal Content Developer at Microsoft with over 10 years focused on PowerShell documentation, tooling, and build automation. He drives documentation strategy for PowerShell and Cloud Shell, blending deep product engineering relationships with hands-on contributions to the PowerShell codebase and the official docs repo. Sean has bridged content and engineering by modernizing build pipelines (Pandoc migrations, build fixes) and updating runtime metadata across releases to improve stability and discoverability. His background in Windows platform services and enterprise support gives him a rare combination of customer-facing troubleshooting experience and systems-level engineering. Based in Denton, Texas, he pairs pragmatic documentation practices with automation skills that reduce friction for both users and maintainers.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of North Texas
Github Skills (14)
net10
asp-net10
powershell10
automation10
build-script10
dotnet10
automations10
documentation9
command-line9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
xml8
windows8
pandoc8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
The official PowerShell documentation sources
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:1226 reviews, 2273 commits, 6633 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on modifying the build process and related scripts for the PowerShell documentation repository. Their contributions included updating the build process to use a specific version of Pandoc, migrating content, and adjusting exclusion lists for various versions. They also addressed errors and warnings in the build system, demonstrating an understanding of the build pipeline's functionality and potential issues.
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PowerShell/PowerShell
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
PowerShell for every system!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 12 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sean contributed to the PowerShell codebase by addressing specific issues and making improvements to the system's functionality. Their work included updating a file link ID and changing XML documentation tags to ensure proper functionality. Furthermore, the user updated `HelpInfoUri` for specific PowerShell modules across multiple releases. This demonstrates a focus on maintaining and improving the stability and usability of the PowerShell environment.
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