Jim Griesmer
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJim Griesmer is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 30 years in software development and nine years in senior engineering leadership roles focused on Visual Studio and VS Code machine learning and Python tooling. He leads teams that evolve the Jupyter and Python developer experience, contributing hands-on to high-profile open-source projects like the VS Code Jupyter and Python extensions to improve native notebook support, data science workflows, and licensing. Jim’s background spans deep product areas—from native diagnostics, C++ tooling, and game/graphics development to modern AI/ML integration—giving him a rare full-stack product and platform perspective. He combines strategic leadership with pragmatic engineering, often iterating on docs, telemetry, and UX details that materially improve developer productivity. Based in Washington, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with decades of ship-room experience, including leading Visual Studio debugger and IDE teams. Colleagues value his steady execution across both legacy native tooling and cutting-edge notebook ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Baldwin Wallace University
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Github Skills (19)
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python10
jupyter10
data-science10
vscode-extension10
editor10
jupyter-notebook10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
telemetry8
intellisense8
javascript8
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-jupyter
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
VS Code Jupyter extension
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 211 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jim contributed to the native notebook experience in VS Code by updating the "Welcome" notebook and associated documentation. They addressed feedback, making iterative improvements to the notebook's content. Furthermore, the user was involved in migrating the Jupyter extension to be fully MIT licensed and added package-lock.json. This work primarily focused on enhancing the user experience and licensing aspects of the Jupyter extension.
vscodevscode-extensionmachine-learningvs-codejupyter
microsoft/vscode-python
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Python extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 commits, 83 PRs, 208 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on enhancing the data science capabilities within the Visual Studio Code Python extension. Their contributions include fixing data analysis issues, integrating gather functionality from `python-program-analysis` to improve code gathering, and implementing support for the native editor. The user also made improvements to the Jupyter notebook integration, incorporating telemetry and enhancing the gather-to-script feature. The work involved modifications across various Python files and related JavaScript code for interactive data science features.
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