Dave Grochocki
Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDave Grochocki is a Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft with 10+ years building AI-powered, scalable experiences and platforms used by hundreds of millions of Windows customers. He leads strategy and investment for 30+ preinstalled Windows apps—like Paint, Photos, Notepad, Snipping Tool, and Media Player—driving UX modernization, Copilot+ AI integrations, and new monetization models across on-device and cloud systems. Combining deep technical roots as a former software engineer with dual MS degrees in Computer Engineering and Human-Centered Design, he translates user needs into platform-level product strategies. He’s also an active open-source contributor, having modernized the XamlStyler Visual Studio extension, showing hands-on expertise in refactoring, packaging, and cross-platform tooling. Known for building high-trust teams, he focuses on durable product investments that create OS-level differentiation and measurable user value.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Human-Centered Design & Engineering, M.S., Human-Centered Design & Engineering at University of WashingtonUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
xaml10
msbuild10
netframework10
visual-studio-extension10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
nuget9
packaging9
command-line-tool9
json8
narrator6
bing-maps6
visual-studio6
uwp6
formatting6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Xavalon/XamlStyler
Dec 2018 - Jun 2022
Visual Studio extension to help format your XAML source code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 41 reviews, 76 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on refactoring and migrating the project's structure, encompassing both the Mac extension and console application. Their contributions included updating project files, such as .csproj, migrating to PackageReference, and updating versioning schemes. The user also made modifications to the XAML styler console, including updating the command line parser, adding passive check functionality, and updating the logo and packaging.
xamluwpuwp-applicationsvisual-studio-extensionuwp-apps
grochocki/XamlMagic
Nov 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 8 months
xamlvisual-studio-extensionxaml-sourcewpfvisual-studio
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