Sydney Smith
Program Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSydney Smith is a Program Manager at Microsoft with seven years of experience bridging product strategy and developer tooling, currently focused on PowerShell. She combines a strong technical background in math, computer science, and economics with hands-on contributions to the popular PowerShell VS Code extension—improving core platform detection, session handling, and multi-architecture path resolution. At Microsoft she moves between PM ownership and technical problem-solving, a skill honed through internships and earlier roles including teaching assistantships in computer science. Based in Seattle, she brings a practical, engineer-friendly approach to product decisions and a knack for resolving interoperability edge cases that quietly improve developer experience.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math, Computer Science, & Economics, Senior, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math, Computer Science, & Economics, Senior at Claremont McKenna CollegeHigh School Diploma, International Baccalaureate, High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate at Skyline High School
Github Skills (9)
windows10
powershell10
windows-xp10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
filesystem8
fileio8
file-operations8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/vscode-powershell
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 58 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sydney primarily focused on updating and improving the PowerShell language support within the Visual Studio Code extension. Their contributions involved modifying core platform components, specifically `platform.ts`, to enhance PowerShell Core detection and path resolution on Windows. The user also made changes to `session.ts`, and `platform.test.ts`, demonstrating efforts to refine the extension's interaction with PowerShell and ensure its functionality. Furthermore, they were involved in adjusting the file paths to accomodate for the 32-bit versions of powershell, which is key to the VS Code extension support.
debuggingpowershellvisual-studio-codeextensions
SydneyhSmith/PowerShell-RFC
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
RFC documents for community feedback on design changes and improvements to PowerShell
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
powershellrfcfeedbackimprovementschanges
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