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About Me
Value driven technical leader who connects technical strategy and business needs to the desires of the user while growing engineering organizations to execute on that strategy across organizational boundaries
Leadership
Mentor, Coach, Teacher, Strategist, Collaborator, Motivator, Manager, Team Builder
Tech
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Azure, OSS, Node.JS, React, Event Hub, Azure IoT Hub, DataBricks, Azure Dev Ops, Git, Micro Service Architecture, SaaS, PaaS, Mobile, PWA, C#/.NET, PHP, JavaScript, Scala, Ruby, Python
Most Popular Talks
- Lost Art of Simplicity
- Build World Class Developer Orgs
- So you want to be an Architect
- Building a Smarter World
- Speaking for Speakers
- Mentorship Matters
- Leading Remote Teams
- Rise of the Machines
Josh Holmes
Technical Leader
Microsoft – 2006-Present
In 15 years, I’ve held 6 distinct roles each of which were driven by strategy and cross organizational collaboration.
Principal Engineering Manager – Commercial Software Engineering
Leading teams to solve supply chain issues in retail creating trusted partner relationships with our top retail customers
Interim Group Program Manager – Edge Developer Experiences
Drove strategy through the decision to switch to Chromium as the core in the developer tools, progressive web apps and WebView
CTO in Residence – Microsoft for Startups Accelerator
Innovated with the 10 startups to deliver IoT solutions resulting in many new startups successfully launching in Azure
Chief Engineer – Partner Catalyst Team
Lead architecture/strategy for global teams of 250 engineers helping customers on innovation projects
Senior Program Manager – Internet Explorer
Shifted the marketing from consumer focused to developer focused dramatically increasing usage of the browser
Principal Technical Evangelist – US and Ireland
Pioneered open-source project engagement driving Azure, SQL Server, Web App Gallery and more opening new markets and opportunities for the entire company
QCash – 2021-Present
Fractional CTO innovating strategy from modernization of older codebase to new feature work to new product lines.
Seattle GiveCamp – 2019-Present
President of Seattle GiveCamp – inspiring and organizing volunteers to solve the biggest technical issues for nonprofits
Previous
SRT Solutions
(2005-2006)
VP and Co-Owner
Richard Hale Shaw Group
(2000-2005)
Trainer Course Author
Alltel Information Services
(1996-2000)
Software Engineer Trainer
Frequent Speaker – 1998-Present
Speaking at many conferences ranging from local technical conferences to international events, such as WebSummit