{"id":248,"date":"2014-05-16T05:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:23:34","slug":"about-jeffrey-snover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/about-jeffrey-snover\/","title":{"rendered":"About Jeffrey Snover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jeffrey Snover is retired and spending his time as a Philosopher-Errant, attending Science &amp; Technology conferences and giving public talks. Prior to retiring in 2026, he was a<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 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.\u00a0 \u00a0Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft\u2019s management technologies and products. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This web site is for his musings about Science, AI, PowerShell, software in general and anything else that he\u2019s currently intrigued by.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Snover is retired and spending his time as a Philosopher-Errant, attending Science &amp; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/about-jeffrey-snover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-248","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}