Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover is retired and spending his time as a Philosopher-Errant, attending Science & Technology conferences and giving public talks. Prior to retiring in 2026, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft where he was an AI Architect in Office, the Chief Architect for Windows Server Azure Stack. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.<br /><br />Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products.<br /><br />Snover held 8 patents 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.