Brigit Murtaugh is a Principal Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft with eight years of experience focused on GitHub Copilot and remote development workflows. She blends product leadership with hands-on engineering sensibilities—contributing to open-source repos ranging from devcontainer docs to .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET samples—so she understands both developer UX and backend data/ML integrations. At Microsoft she progressed rapidly from Program Manager intern to principal, advocating for end users while shipping features that streamline developer environments. Colleagues know her for improving tooling ergonomics and for practical contributions to front-end site UX and production-ready notebook samples, a sign she bridges product strategy and real code. Based in Redmond, she pairs a Computer Science foundation from UCF with a pragmatic focus on making developer tooling more delightful and productive.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science College of Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science College of Engineering and Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Web content for the development containers specification.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:65 reviews, 71 commits, 131 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Brigit's contributions primarily involve updating the `index.html` file, likely to modify the website's presentation. They have made changes to the layout, added a GitHub star button, and modified footer elements, suggesting a focus on the UI/UX aspect of the web content. Furthermore, the user updated other files like `collections.html`, `reference.md` and `supporting.md`, indicating a role in organizing and structuring content within the website.
.NET for Apache® Spark™ makes Apache Spark™ easily accessible to .NET developers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 214 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brigit contributed significantly to the .NET for Apache Spark project by enhancing and extending example applications. Their work involved refactoring existing samples across batch and streaming contexts, integrating new features like character count and sentiment analysis. They also developed UDFs and SQL queries to facilitate log processing and sentiment analysis on streaming data, showcasing a strong understanding of Spark SQL and .NET development. The user also implemented ML.NET models within Spark applications, highlighting their skills in machine learning integration.
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Brigit Murtaugh - Principal Product Manager at Microsoft