Jacob Kirsch
Product Manager III, Copilot Productivity at GitHub
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Kirsch is a product leader focused on developer productivity, currently driving Copilot experiences at GitHub while completing an MBA at Harvard Business School. With five years of experience spanning product roles at GitHub and program management at Microsoft, he blends technical fluency in .NET and developer tooling with user-centered research to ship features that improve developer workflows. He began his career teaching programming and assisting graduate courses at the University of Michigan, which informs his knack for clear communication and mentoring. Based in Cambridge, he brings a pragmatic engineering background—codespaces and Copilot product work—paired with a commitment to inclusivity as an openly LGBT technologist and avid runner.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Science & Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Information Science & Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (26)
xamarin-mac10
xamarin-android10
tizen10
maccatalyst10
maui10
uwp10
xamarin10
dotnet10
winui10
user-interface10
xamarin-ios10
net-maui10
desktop10
app-platform10
android10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ThisIsKirsch/ThisIsKirsch
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
bdmac/educationy
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Example of what a possible education focussed partner repo could look like.
Contributions:2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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