Mads Bolaris
Group Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMads Bolaris is a Group Product Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of experience blending product leadership, design research, and hands-on front-end engineering. He rose through roles from design researcher and program manager to principal product manager before leading product groups, demonstrating strong cross-functional execution at scale. Mads couples a Carnegie Mellon HCI master's and a CS/math BS with deep UI and UX instincts, evidenced by meaningful front-end contributions to Microsoft's high-profile semantic-kernel Copilot Chat—refactoring Fluent UI usage and shipping file upload and chat integrations. Known for translating research and technical detail into polished user experiences, he brings both technical fluency and academic rigor to product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics, 3.95/4.0, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics, 3.95/4.0 at Southern Methodist UniversityMaster's degree, Human Computer Interaction, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction, 4.0/4.0 at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
uid10
typescript10
fluentui10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
ai8
sdk7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/semantic-kernel
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 32 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mads primarily contributed to the UI and front-end aspects of the Copilot Chat application, refactoring the UI components to utilize Fluent UI tokens and add brand ramp. Additionally, the user worked on fixing UI bugs related to the header and chat list, enhancing the visual consistency and user experience. Furthermore, the user implemented the file upload functionality, including the necessary handlers for file parsing and integration with the chat functionality.
aiartificial-intelligencellmopenaisdk
MicrosoftDocs/semantic-kernel-docs
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK enabling integration of AI Large Language Models (LLMs) with conventional programming languages.
Contributions:47 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
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