Tess Gauthier
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTess Gauthier is a Software Engineer II with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade systems at Microsoft after starting her engineering career at GE Power. She maintains OpenSSH for Windows, focusing on security, telemetry, and CI/CD automation, and has contributed telemetry features to the widely used Win32-OpenSSH project. Her background in electrical and computer engineering (Georgia Tech, Boston University) and early work at NASA and GE give her a strong foundation in embedded systems, performance analytics, and applied machine learning for industrial assets. Based in Cambridge, she blends low-level C expertise with Python-driven analytics and a knack for turning telemetry into actionable business insights. Passionate about environmental impact and diversity in STEM, Tess brings both technical rigor and a commitment to inclusive, mission-driven engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyEngineering, Engineering at Technische Universität DresdenSouth Hadley High SchoolBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (8)
c1710
windows10
openssh10
c1110
telemetry10
security9
ssh9
cryptography8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/openssh-portable
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Portable OpenSSH, all Win32-OpenSSH releases and wiki are managed at https://github.com/powershell/Win32-OpenSSH
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:71 reviews, 33 commits, 196 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tess's primary contributions focus on implementing telemetry for Microsoft's Win32 OpenSSH. This involved adding functions to collect and send various telemetry data points related to authentication, encryption, SSH server connection, and key management. The user also fixed a typo in a telemetry description. The user's work shows an involvement in ensuring the security of SSH connections and compliance with Microsoft's telemetry standards.
windowspowershellwin32linuxopenssh
tgauth/Win32-OpenSSH
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:9 PRs, 22 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 5 months
win32windowsopenssh
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