__NOTOC__ Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer at

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. Previously a Microsoft Technical Fellow,

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Chief Architect, and the Chief Architect for

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and the Azure Infrastructure and Management group which includes Azure Stack, System Center and

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Suite. Snover is the inventor of

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, an object-based distributed

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engine,

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, and command line shell and was the chief architect for

Biography

After studying, but not receiving a degree in, physics at the

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(1978–1982), Snover worked as architect and development manager for Tivoli NetView at

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(IBM), and as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects. He also worked at

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, and various start-up companies. Snover joined

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in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction for Microsoft's management technologies and products. Snover is known primarily as the "father" and chief architect of Microsoft's

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command line interpreter

, whose development began under the codename "Monad" (msh) at the beginning of 2003. He had the idea of an object-

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and implemented the first prototype in the C# programming language. After the completion of version 1.0 in November 2006, Windows PowerShell was downloaded nearly one million times within half a year. In 2015, Microsoft promoted Snover to Technical Fellow. In 2019 he was the AI architect for M365 substrate and became the CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation. Snover was also the Chief Architect of the

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(MMC). In 2022 he left Microsoft and became an SRE Google Distinguished Engineer. Snover held eight

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s prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics. Snover had also starred in a video series known as "Getting Started With PowerShell", available on Microsoft Virtual Academy.

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* Snover, Jeffrey: Monad Manifesto – the Origin of Windows PowerShell, 2007 *

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