Jacob Rossi is a product leader with 13 years of experience building zero-to-one products and two-sided platforms at Microsoft, Meta/Oculus, and Cruise, currently shaping Meta's OS and developer platform for Quest VR/MR. He combines deep technical fluency—evidenced by multiple patents and contributions to web standards and a front-end contribution to the Microsoft Edge status site—with hands-on execution as a single-threaded lead for large, complex initiatives like Meta Quest Pro. Jacob has led cross-functional orgs and managed managers, negotiated strategic partnerships with Microsoft to bring Office, Teams, Windows, and Xbox into VR, and driven ML simulation tooling for autonomous vehicles. Comfortable switching between founder-level ambiguity and enterprise-scale coordination, he excels at translating standards, browser and XR expertise, and platform strategy into developer-facing products that scale. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of standards-level influence and practical product delivery across web, VR, and AV domains.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
College Prep Diploma, College Prep Diploma at North Hall High School
This repository tracks the roadmap for the Microsoft Edge web platform. This data is used on https://status.microsoftedge.com/ to provide implementation status and forward-looking plans for web standards in Edge and other browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:325 commits, 94 PRs, 145 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Microsoft Edge web platform status site. Their work involved implementing the homepage masthead with CSS and HTML, which included styling and layout changes. They also introduced basic roadmap data and modified the page title. In addition, the user addressed and fixed tooltips within the Safari browser.
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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