Steve Steiner
Principal PM Architect at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Steiner is a Principal PM Architect with nearly three decades of engineering experience and nine years in senior roles driving performance, diagnostics, and device firmware across Microsoft and consumer hardware companies. He specializes in rescuing difficult engineering projects—restoring failing systems, porting performance-critical components like a JIT to ARM, and leading firmware delivery for Jawbone wearables through multiple upgrades. At Microsoft he has deep expertise in C++, C#, debuggers, profilers, and cloud performance engineering, and today shapes architecture and product decisions from Seattle. He pairs hands-on technical problem solving with team leadership, having built tooling, led remote teams, and owned cross-team optimization efforts. Notably, he retains a tinkerer’s streak outside work (per his GitHub bio) while applying formal CS training from MIT to pragmatic, production-grade solutions.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
debugging10
chatgpt10
vscode-extension10
azure-ai10
vscode10
azd-templates10
azure10
jupyter-extension10
jupyter9
large-language-models9
antlr9
openai9
retrieval-augmented-generation9
azure-openai8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SteveJSteiner/BantamScribe
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 10 months
KnowSeams/KnowSeams
Aug 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 months
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