Jim Truher
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Tamplin is a Senior Business Development Analyst at Microsoft in Redmond with 10 years of experience blending business development, analytics, and technical delivery. He pairs deal-making and marketing savvy with hands-on engineering, contributing to high-profile open-source PowerShell projects (PowerShell, PSScriptAnalyzer, Pester) where he’s focused on test automation, CI/CD, and build/versioning improvements. His background spans support, infrastructure, and business intelligence—allowing him to translate complex technical constraints into commercial opportunity. A University of Oregon master's graduate, he’s known for making tests and releases more robust across platforms and even introducing SBOM and automation practices into build pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
powershell-710
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dotnet10
dev-ops10
automation10
ci-cd10
build-automation10
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mocking10
aspnet10
powershell10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Jan 2018 - Jul 2022
Download ScriptAnalyzer from PowerShellGallery
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 77 reviews, 85 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jim's primary focus was on improving the build and release process for the PowerShell ScriptAnalyzer project. They automated and streamlined builds through the use of VSTS (now Azure DevOps), Docker, and PowerShell scripts. Their contributions included setting up CI/CD pipelines, integrating with build environments, and ensuring the proper versions of .NET Core SDK were installed and used for the build. They also incorporated the creation of SBOMs for the project.
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PowerShell/PowerShell
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
PowerShell for every system!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:263 reviews, 224 commits, 196 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on enhancing the PowerShell codebase, specifically adding functionality to include Git commit IDs in the PSVersionTable. Their contributions involved modifying core engine files, updating tests to validate the new functionality, and implementing logic to retrieve the Git commit ID from the version file during the build process. The user also made improvements to existing Pester tests, making them more robust and maintainable, and contributed to automating tests and test runs on CI/CD.
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