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John Shewchuk

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

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]

Career

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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

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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

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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

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  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.