Harald Kirschner
US, Germany
Summary
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RockstarHarald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft in Mountain View with a 20-year track record in data analytics, AI, customer-centric product strategy, software engineering, design and open source. He leads AI, developer experience and growth for Visual Studio Code, pairing strategic product vision with hands‑on contributions to the VS Code repo—such as instrumentation for extension commands, view activation and webview usage to improve telemetry and the extension ecosystem. Harald excels at connecting stakeholders, customer needs and technology into pragmatic, measurable product outcomes and iteratively shipping improvements. His Dipl.-Ing. in Multimedia Engineering gives him a strong UX and systems perspective that informs developer tooling decisions. Colleagues rely on him to translate feedback into clear roadmaps and engineering tasks that move platforms at scale.
15 years of coding experience
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mootools
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Github Skills (31)
visual-studio-code10
javascript10
typescript310
webview10
electron10
ide10
typescript10
typescript210
javascripts10
remoteaccess10
vscode10
typescript-types10
remotecontrol10
android-webview10
webview210
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 120 commits, 92 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Harald contributed to various areas of the Visual Studio Code project, demonstrating a broad skillset. They implemented instrumentation for extension commands and view activation, indicating involvement in the extension ecosystem. The user also refactored code based on feedback and added snippet instrumentation, suggesting work on features related to code completion and user experience. Additionally, they were involved in reporting extension lists and instrumentation of webview usage.
visual-studio-codeelectronvscodevscode-extensionmicrosoft
microsoft/vscode-extension-recommender
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
(Early preview) Recommender System for VS Code Extension
Contributions:2 reviews, 25 commits, 15 PRs in 1 month
vs-code-extensionpythonrecommendervs-coderecommender-system
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