Arul Kumaravel is currently the Development
Manager of the Windows PowerShell team. He has worked with this
team since its early days and led the team in shipping of version 1
of the product, and is presently leading the development of next
version of PowerShell. Fascinated by computers from an early age,
when he first learned programming using BASIC, he went on to get
his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from both the
College of Engineering, Madras, India, and the University of Iowa.
As a Microsoft intern, he wrote the first JavaScript/VBScript
debugger for Internet Explorer 3, and was impressed by the
potential to make a difference in millions of people's lives by
working for Microsoft. He has been working at Microsoft for the
past 11 years in various groups, shipping multiple versions of
products, including Internet Explorer, the Windows operating
system, and Content Management Server, and has even dabbled with
Software as a Service with small business online services. More
recently, attracted by the business side of technology, Arul has
taken on the arduous task of pursuing his M.B.A. at the Wharton
Business School. He can be reached at arulk@hotmail.com.
Jon White is a software engineer who lives and
works in the idyllic surroundings of Seattle's eastern suburbs. An
original member of the PowerShell team at Microsoft, his
professional career started in the Administrative Tools group in
Windows Server. As a hobbyist, Jon learned programming in his early
teens after his father bought an 8088-based PC clone at a
second-hand shop. The PC came with MS-DOS 2.0, which featured
debug.exe with a 16-bit disassembler, but no assembler. As a
result, Jon's first dive into programming was disassembling long
tables of bytes to create a reverse-lookup dictionary for manually
converting assembly programs into executable binary code.
Coincidentally, later in life he filed the bug which removed
debug.exe from 64-bit Windows. As a member of the PowerShell team,
he wrote the language's first production script, when he converted
the team's test harness from Perl to PowerShell script in 2004.
When he's not working (or writing about work) he's either sailing
or playing with fire in the backyard. You can contact him at
jwh@microsoft.com.
Michael Naixin Li is the Senior Test Lead
working on the Windows PowerShell team and currently oversees the
testing of Windows PowerShell 2.0. Before Windows PowerShell,
Michael worked on various major projects at Microsoft, including
the development of MSN 1.x and 2.x, quality management for the COM
Services component in Windows 2000, NetDocsWeb Client Access, Web
Services in Hailstorm, and Software Licensing Service in Windows
Vista. Before joining Microsoft, Michael was an assistant professor
at Shanghai University of Science and Technology (now called
Shanghai University). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Colorado State University.
Scott Happell has been working as a software
engineer and tester for 10 years. Three of those years have been on
the Windows PowerShell team, which was what brought him to
Microsoft from New Jersey, where he worked at an Internet startup
that went belly-up. Scott recently left Microsoft to become a
recording engineer/rock star and is trying to find cool ways to use
PowerShell to help him create music.
George Xie was a Senior Developer in the
Windows PowerShell team for three years, mainly focusing in the
area of snap-in model and scripting language. Recently George
joined Windows Mobile organization for the Mobile Device Management
product. Before joining Microsoft, George worked for Siebel Systems
Inc. for several years.
Krishna Chythanya Vutukuri is a Software
Developer working on theWindows PowerShell team. Before Windows
PowerShell, Krishna worked on various projects atMicrosoft, which
included the development of Windows Presentation Foundation. Before
joining Microsoft, Krishna held various product development
positions at Hewlett-Packard India Software Operations and Wipro
Technologies. He holds a M.Sc (Tech.) in Information Systems from
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.