Edward Thomson

Principal Program Manager, Azure DevOps

Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Azure DevOps, where he ensures that customers are successful with Git, CI/CD and DevOps concepts. Before becoming a Program Manager, he was a Software Engineer at GitHub and Microsoft working on Git tools.

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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.01

It's been a busy week for me, I've been at the fabulous NDC London conference where I had the pleasure of seeing some amazing speakers like Microsoft's very own Seth Juarez, Jon Galloway and Scott Hanselman. The NDC family of conferences are amazing and if there's one in your neck of the woods, I encourage you to check it out. But now I'm on the train back home, so I'm catching up on what I missed in the news this week. Here's some of the great stories that I found.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.25

Whew, in addition to the day job, I've been hacking on some open source this week. So I've been thinking a lot about my favorite things about Azure Pipelines that helps out with OSS. So it's been a busy week, and I'm looking forward to the weekend. But first, I wanted to share some of this week's great stories from the community.

Top 5 Open Source Features in Azure Pipelines

When I became a Program Manager, I gave up writing software for a living. So I did what many programmers do when faced with such a dilemma: I started working on open source software in my spare time. One of the projects that I work on is called libgit2.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.18

Lots of big news coming from the Azure DevOps team this week: we've announced a bounty for security researchers and announced a partnership with Service Now. But there's also some great reading coming from the Azure DevOps community - here's some of the nice articles that I found this week.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.11

Welcome back Microsoft developers and DevOps practitioners; I hope you had a great new year! Me? I took some time off to recharge the batteries and I'm glad I did because — wow — even though it's just the beginning of 2019, there's already some incredible news coming out of the DevOps community.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.12.14

Happy Friday! Now that I live in Jolly Old England, the holiday festivities have begun (if you're not British, you might not know the whole of December is reserved for parties). So this will be the last top stories post for 2018, but don't worry, I'll be back in 2019. In the meantime, here are some great DevOps articles that I found this week.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.12.07

It's Friday, and I'm just on my way home from Microsoft Connect(); 2018. If you missed the product announcements, discussions and coding sessions, don't worry: Connect is entirely online, so you can catch up right now.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.30

I'm getting ready to head out to Microsoft Connect 2018 next week, but before I go, I wanted to share with you some of the great stories from the Microsoft DevOps community.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.23

I hope that you've recovered from your Thanksgiving feast and you're sitting around comfortably, binge-watching sitcoms and reading the latest news in DevOps. No? Is that just me? Well, now it can be you, too, because here's what I've been reading today.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.16

Happy Friday! Sure you're getting ready to call it a day and start enjoying your weekend, but before you do, don't miss these excellent articles about DevOps on the Microsoft platform.