Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 · 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• Took a year off to spend more time with family. Wrote a lot of code. Experimented with endless variations of fried egg on toast. Advised a few brilliant startups in the developer space.

Jan 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Led the product, developer relations, education, and content organization at GitHub. Launched or commercialized several products such as Actions, Packages, Codespaces, and Copilot, significantly grew engagement and revenue, and built out a relatively new product team.

Dec 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Kirkland, Washington

• Led the product organization responsible for GCP's developer and operator tools, including Cloud SDKs, Go, Cloud Build, Stackdriver, and others - as well as Google's own internal engineering tools.

Sep 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Seattle, WA

• Led a unified Product Management, User Experience, and Technical Content team, building industry-leading line of DevOps and automation products, including our flagship product, Chef Automate.

Aug 2008 – Jun 2016 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Redmond, WA

• Led Product, UX, and engineering teams in the Visual Studio org. Co-founded Visual Studio Code, and led teams that delivered Typescript, Chakra, tools for Windows and Azure. Founded the Open Source Programs Office, helping Microsoft become the top commercial OSS contributor in the world.

Aug 2004 – Aug 2008 · 4 yrs · Redmond, WA

• Led product and engineering teams on the .NET team through multiple releases. Delivered new versions of ASP.NET, the top web platform of its time, and incubated a few new products including Microsoft Silverlight.

Oct 1998 – Aug 2004 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Redmond, WA

• Incubated technology for multimodal adaptive user interfaces, leading to shipping Mobile Internet Toolkit, Microsoft's first .NET-based web app platform for mobile devices. As architect, designed and prototyped several new features in .NET, including a hierarchical configuration system.

Jan 1998 – Oct 1998 · 9 mos · Redmond, WA

• Developed new features for Microsoft Chat, a text and graphics based chat client that shipped in Windows 98. Rebuilt the product in three months as a web-based service, MSN Chat, which became Microsoft's first web application to get to 1M active users.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1998 · 6 yrs · Mississauga, Ontario

• Developed many of the features in Astound for Windows, an award-winning multimedia presentation authoring product. Led the core platform architecture of the new 32-bit version of Astound. Envisioned and delivered Astound Webcast, a product that combined the ease of presentation authoring with subscription feeds to deliver creation and delivery of dynamic multimedia content over the web.