William Sluss
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorWilliam Sluss is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with nine years in program and engineering roles focused on identity synchronization and platform integration for Education and Office 365. He leads School Data Sync (SDS) efforts, blending deep technical hands-on scripting (PowerShell for Azure AD, Exchange Online, Intune/license management) with cross-team program leadership to deliver scalable education solutions. His background spans messaging engineering, field engineering, and consultancy at Microsoft and partners, plus prior military service, giving him a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to complex deployments. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs product-focused instincts with operational discipline—often surfacing practical automation that reduces friction for IT admins in schools. An active contributor to the popular O365-EDU-Tools repo, he combines open-source tooling with enterprise program delivery to accelerate adoption in the education sector.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
azuread10
powershell10
scripting10
exchange-online9
microsoft-graph9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
OfficeDev/O365-EDU-Tools
Nov 2016 - Jul 2022
O365 Education tools and scripts repository
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:241 commits, 1 PR, 234 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the development of PowerShell scripts related to the O365 Education tools and scripts repository. They updated various existing scripts, including those for SDS attribute extraction, connecting to Azure AD and Exchange Online, and managing classroom licenses. These updates focused on adapting the scripts to the repository's purpose and the needs of the education tools and scripts. They also added new scripts that manage Intune licenses and security.
o365
microsoft/o365-moodle
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Office 365 and Azure Active Directory plugins for Moodle
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
microsoft-school-data-syncoffice365onedriveazure-ad-b2cmicrosoft
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