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.

Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products.

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.

This web site is for his musings about Science, AI, PowerShell, software in general and anything else that he’s currently intrigued by.