Andrew Glass
Principal Manager, Product Management at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Glass is a Principal Manager of Product Management in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices Group with over a decade of experience shaping text input and font-rendering user experiences. He joined Microsoft in 2008 and has led work on keyboards, text intelligence, and complex-script rendering, bringing a rare combination of product leadership and deep scholarly expertise. Holding an MA and PhD in Gandhāri and Buddhist studies from the University of Washington, he is the author of a University of Washington Press monograph and numerous academic articles. Andrew has influenced global script support through many Unicode proposals (including Kharoṣṭhī, Brāhmī, and Egyptian Hieroglyph controls), blending linguistic scholarship with practical engineering requirements. Before Microsoft he taught at universities in the US, Netherlands, and Japan, a background that informs his thoughtful approach to internationalization and accessibility. Based in Seattle, he pairs rigorous humanities training with product discipline to solve nuanced technical problems that affect billions of users.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Gandhari language and Buddhist studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Gandhari language and Buddhist studies at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts - BA Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies at University of London
Github Skills (41)
data-repository10
opentype10
fonts10
freetype10
ufo10
locale10
unicode10
cldr10
text-rendering10
icu10
variable-fonts10
truetype10
harfbuzz10
typography10
opentype-fonts10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xadxura/egyptianopentype
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
This project develops Python (3.7) source code to generate OpenType tables for Egyptian Hieroglyphic fonts.
Contributions:4 PRs, 156 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
pythonfontpython-3-7fontspython-3
microsoft/font-tools
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Font tools to support development of OpenType fonts.
Contributions:3 reviews, 33 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years 1 month
fontfontsopentype-fontsopentypetruetype
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