John Vintzel
Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Vintzel is an engineering leader with over 25 years of experience delivering high-scale, high-reliability enterprise and developer products, currently known for driving Windows Autopatch strategy and a recent 30% year-over-year growth. He has led product vision and execution across Windows application management—owning platforms, SDKs, APIs, and partner ecosystems for Windows, Xbox, and HoloLens—and was the driving force behind the ideation and launch of Windows Package Manager (winget). Skilled at aligning cross-functional teams, he pairs technical depth in OS and deployment technologies (MSIX, App Attach, ConfigMgr) with go-to-market leadership and customer engagement. John has a track record of building partner programs and ecosystem adoption while maintaining exceptionally high team health scores. Based in Redmond, he blends enterprise operational rigor from large-scale deployments with a product-focused mindset that moves features from incubation to broad adoption.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting, Accounting at Oakland University
Github Skills (39)
microsoft10
windows10
msix10
windows-package-manager10
manifest10
windows-app-sdk10
windows-service10
mdt10
powershell10
winget10
wpf10
package-manager10
appinstaller9
windows-desktop9
nuget9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jvintzel/winget-pkgs
May 2020 - Oct 2020
The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository
Contributions:9 branches in 4 months
windows-desktopmdtwindows-package-managerwindowsmanifest
MicrosoftDocs/msix-docs
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
repository for msix content
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
msix
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