[IGNITE ’18] Up Close with the Experts – Paula J’s Interview with Jeffrey Snover
During the Microsoft Ignite 2018, Paula J asked the father of PowerShell how big a challenge it was to make his baby cross-platform.
What kind of future Jeffrey Snover wants to build using code in a world where organs already rely on software to function, and why PowerShell 6.1 doesn’t have as many PowerShell features in it as Jeffrey would like? Find out all the answers in the below interview.
Jeffrey Snover is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the Chief Architect for the Enterprise Cloud Group which includes Azure Stack, Windows Server, System Center, and Operations Management Suite.
Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products.
Snover has over 30 years of industry experience with a focus on management technologies and solutions. He was an architect in the office of the CTO at Tivoli and a development manager at NetView. He has worked also as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects.
Besides, Snover is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of cloud, management and language topics.