Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover
Professional Developers Conference 2009 Technical Leaders Panel (Second Left)
Nationality	American
Education	University of New Hampshire
Occupation	Programmer, Chief Architect
Employer	Microsoft
Known for	Powershell, Windows Server, Azure Stack
Title	Technical Fellow
Website	www.jsnover.com

Jeffrey Snover is a Microsoft Technical Fellow, PowerShell Chief Architect, and the Chief Architect for the Azure Infrastructure and Management group which includes Azure Stack, 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 and was the chief architect for Windows Server.

After studying physics at the University of New Hampshire(1978-1982), Snover worked as Development Manager and as architect at Tivoli (IBM), as well as Consulting Software Engineer of DEC management group at Apollo Computer, where he led various network and systems management projects. He also worked at Storage Technology Corporation, NetView and various start-up companies. 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 was known primarily as the "father" and chief architect of Microsoft's new object-oriented command line interpreter Windows PowerShell, whose development began under the codename "Monad" (msh) at the beginning of 2003. Snover had the idea of object-pipeline and the first prototype implemented in the C# programming language. After the completion of version 1.0 in November 2006, Windows PowerShell had nearly one million download times within half a year. In 2015, Microsoft promoted Snover to Technical Fellow.