John Shewchuk is an American technologist and executive. Shewchuk is a Microsoft Technical Fellow, a position which he was chosen for by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.[2][3] He is the Host of the Decoded Show.[4] Shewchuk is the founder of the .NET Services team[3] and he was responsible for creating Azure AD.[5]

John Shewchuk
Occupation(s)Executive
Technologist
Known forTechnical Fellow at Microsoft.[1]

Career edit

In 1993 Shewchuk joined Microsoft as Group Program Manager, and he then served as Software Engineer and Distinguished Engineer.[6] Today he serves as the Head of Commercial Software Engineering team at Microsoft, focusing on building a third-party application ecosystem[7]

Education edit

Shewchuk received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union College and his master's degree in Computer Science from Brown University.

Decoded Show edit

In 2016 host John Shewchuk and Executive Producer David Mendlen introduced the Decoded Show.[8] The show offers regular insight into developer focused topics with interesting people from the industry.[9] The Decoded Show has hosted speakers including actor Kevin Hart[10]

References edit

  1. ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Microsoft Big Brains: John Shewchuk - ZDNet".
  2. ^ Weinberger, Matt (11 March 2018). "Meet John Shewchuk, the guy in charge of Microsoft's developer outreach team" – via The Economic Times.
  3. ^ a b Foley, Mary Jo. "Microsoft Big Brains: John Shewchuk". ZDNet. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
  4. ^ Weinberger, Matt. "Meet the guy in charge of convincing people that Microsoft isn't evil". Business Insider. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  5. ^ Simons, Alex. "Announcing the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory". Microsoft.com.
  6. ^ Massi, Beth. "Happy Birthday .NET with John Shewchuk". Channel 9. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  7. ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Microsoft announces internally its new 'commercial and consumer' sales model". ZDNet. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Join us for Microsoft GM Dave Mendlen's Webinar on Digital Transformation". sociable.co. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  9. ^ Williams, Owen (2016-03-03). "Microsoft finally 💖's open source: A chat with npm's founder". The Next Web. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  10. ^ "Celebrity backed startups". StartUp Beat. 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2017-10-26.