Shawn Mcdowell
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
North Bend, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Mcdowell is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of deep experience building and testing Microsoft and Office developer platforms, currently driving integration and telemetry work for Microsoft Graph Webhooks. He blends hands-on engineering—working across Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Office.js, VSTO/COM, VBA and Access—with strategic leadership, having led engineering strategy and cross-team initiatives for more than 15 years. At Microsoft he has led feature ownership, incident reduction efforts, telemetry and logging integrations, and defined core MAU/DAU and ACE/ICE metrics to measure developer success. Known for reducing customer-impacting issues (including a recognized win on SharePoint Workflow) and for improving add-in reliability, he pairs product-focused metrics with pragmatic engineering solutions. Based in North Bend, WA, he combines a rare depth in legacy Office programmability with modern cloud telemetry and API design.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Redmond High SchoolBA Business/Computer Science, BA Business/Computer Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (19)
pnp10
office-js8
merge7
azure6
api6
microsoft-graph-api6
npm-package6
office3656
npm6
microsoft6
reviewer6
server5
sdk5
vba5
cdn5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shawnmcdowell/Office-Extensibility-Samples
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
ameliab12/JurassiCal
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 month
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