Summary
Steven Bucher is a Product Manager II at Microsoft with nine years of experience building developer tools and security-focused infrastructure, currently leading AI Shell and Windows OpenSSH initiatives. He blends hands-on engineering empathy with product strategy—driving generative-AI integrations into the CLI while shepherding Copilot-in-Azure GA requirements, compliance, and partner adoption. His background ranges from embedded IoT and ML model work to SRE and telemetry improvements for PowerShell, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency in developer experience, reliability, and security. Steven is passionate about sustainability and social impact, and he applies that lens to make tooling more accessible and equitable for IT and developer communities. Notably, he increased automated CLI command test success rates from 30% to over 70% through deep collaboration with Copilot teams, showing an ability to turn complex integrations into tangible product outcomes.
10 years of coding experience