Jeff Handley

About Jeff Handley

A natural leader with 25 years’ experience building a broad set of projects. Passion for frameworks and libraries that provide developer productivity and system maintainability. Compassionate manager driven to build and strengthen diverse, geo-distributed teams and groups.

Experience

1. Principal Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Dec 2019 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   NET LIBRARIES TEAM• As one of three managers in the.NET Libraries group, led my team to deliver.NET features across dozens of libraries• Partnering with the Performance team, defined and led the strategy for monitoring libraries’ performance changes• Collaborating with the.NET 1st Party team, supported and resourced.NET modernization efforts within Microsoft• Organized an “Area Pods” approach to assign areas of ownership to improve team dynamics and productivity• Introduced a triage rotation to load-balance and improve cross-team triage responsibilities• Initiated and led the Libraries group’s contributions to Roslyn Analyzers to help developers improve their API usage• Contributed to the design and delivery of features that help developers use platform-specific APIs successfully• Finalized the design for obsoleting.NET APIs with custom and granular diagnostics

Education

• UC Blue Ash College

  Accounting and Business/Management

  2000 — 2001

• University of Cincinnati

  Computer Engineering

  1996 — 1997

Skills

• Software Design
• Software Engineering
• Vb.net
• .net Framework
• C#
• Wcf
• Asp.net
• Windows Communication Foundation (Wcf)
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Active Server Pages (Asp)
• Asp
• Node.js
• React.js
• Javascript
• Mentoring
• Front-End Development
• Team Leadership