David Hoerster
Principal Product Manager - Identity at Microsoft
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Hoerster is a principal product manager at Microsoft with 13+ years of experience bridging enterprise architecture, product strategy, and hands-on software delivery across cloud and on-premise Microsoft stacks. He began in corporate finance before pivoting to software, founding AgileWays and serving in architect and CTO roles where he specialized in service-oriented solutions, workflow systems, and automated build and release processes. At Microsoft he focuses on External Identities (B2B/B2C), helping customers navigate digital transformation while drawing on deep .NET, BizTalk, WCF and TFS expertise. A six-time .NET MVP and regional conference speaker, he pairs community leadership with practical engineering—contributing front-end and JavaScript improvements to Microsoft's popular WhatTheHack learning repo. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a product-minded architect’s perspective, blending consultancy experience with large-scale program delivery.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, Accounting, BBA, Accounting at University of Notre Dame
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WhatTheHack
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
A collection of challenge based hack-a-thons including student guide, coach guide, lecture presentations, sample/instructional code and templates. Please visit the What The Hack website at: https://aka.ms/wth
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 30 commits, 12 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, making significant changes to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files within various challenges. Their work included updating page templates, modifying CSS styles for improved UI, and incorporating new features. The user also demonstrated back-end capabilities by modifying a JavaScript file.
what-the-hackvisitstudent-guidewthcoach
AgileDave/samples
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Azure AD B2C Identity Experience Framework sample User Journeys.
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
azure-functionsb2cazure-ad-b2cidentityazure
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