Eric Thompson
Group Product Manager - AI Gmail at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Thompson is a cross-disciplinary product and technical program leader with 10+ years of experience shipping large-scale consumer and enterprise software at Microsoft and Facebook. He currently leads Group TPM for OneNote & Copilot Notebooks, orchestrating AI stack delivery, evaluation pipelines, and release readiness across ~300 engineers and hundreds of partner teams. Eric has driven monetization and growth initiatives that generated hundreds of millions in revenue and shaped multi-billion-dollar product lines while embedding responsible AI, security, and privacy into shipping practices. Rooted in design and front-end engineering, he helped scale the Office UI Fabric (Fluent UI) and contributed UI/accessibility improvements to widely used Office tooling. He excels at aligning product, design, and engineering around a clear narrative to accelerate velocity and quality without burning teams out. Unusually, his background spans chemistry and music production, reflecting a practical creativity that surfaces in both technical systems and go-to-market strategy.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemistry at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
ui-design9
javascript9
documentation8
accessibility7
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/office-ui-fabric-core
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
The front-end CSS framework for building experiences for Office and Microsoft 365.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 88 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to front-end development, primarily focusing on the user interface aspects of the Office UI Fabric Core. They modified HTML and CSS, updating and enhancing the visual presentation and user experience of components such as the DatePicker and icons. These changes involved adding references to external libraries and updating documentation. Additionally, the commits suggest involvement in theming adjustments and integrating components for better accessibility.
cssfrontend
OfficeDev/office-ui-fabric-js
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
JavaScript components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:46 commits, 28 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 months
javascriptoffice365
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