Vaughan Knight
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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SeniorVaughan Knight is a Principal Engineering Manager based in Sydney with 13 years of experience leading engineering teams across manufacturing and energy domains for Microsoft in Asia. As ANZ Studio Lead within Industry Solutions Engineering, he blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery to drive cloud and industry-focused solutions at scale. He also chairs the Carbon Aware SDK at the Green Software Foundation, shaping open standards and tooling that help organizations reduce carbon impact in software operations. Vaughan is known for bridging product, engineering and sustainability goals—translating climate-aware requirements into practical developer SDKs and enterprise integrations. Colleagues value his ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments while keeping teams motivated to ship measurable outcomes. His dual focus on industry solutions and carbon-aware open source work gives him a rare combo of domain depth and community influence.
12 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
sdk10
agile10
documentation-template9
bug-tracker9
project-management9
mobile-services9
docker9
radial9
product-management9
agile-development9
drift9
planning9
green-software8
timezone8
graphql8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vaughanknight/alluvial-pbiviz
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Alluvial chart based on D3, rawgraphs, and other design based sankey diagrams on the web, written in typescript as a powerbi customer visual
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
visualizationchartsdiagramssankeychart
vaughanknight/timezonetax
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Thoughts on the timezone tax
Contributions:41 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
timezonetaxthoughts
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