Mads Kristensen
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMads Kristensen is a developer-turned-product leader with 13 years of experience building and shaping the Visual Studio developer experience at Microsoft, now serving as Principal Product Manager in Seattle. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—authoring widely used Visual Studio extensions like Web Essentials, BundlerMinifier, and WebCompiler—with product strategy for tools used by millions. Comfortable shipping web apps and tooling, he has deep expertise in front-end workflows, build tooling, and ASP.NET Core, and still builds sites using the features he helps create. An active open-source maintainer, Mads has contributed to high-impact projects such as SchemaStore and WebOptimizer and is known for pragmatic improvements like SourceMap support and responsive tooling for keyboard shortcuts. Off-hours he tinkers with home automation, reflecting a practical curiosity that drives both product ideas and engineering polish.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German
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Github Skills (44)
razor-pages10
javascript10
media-queries10
coffeescript10
bootstrap10
json-schema10
extensibility10
css10
net10
sass10
responsive-design10
typescript10
dotnet10
user-interface10
asp-net-core10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
madskristensen/MiniBlog
May 2013 - Mar 2022
A minimal blog engine using Razor Web Pages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:347 commits, 34 PRs, 36 pushes in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mads primarily contributed to the development of a minimal blog engine using Razor Web Pages. Their work included adding microdata for SEO, implementing authentication features with sign-in/sign-out functionality, integrating a commenting system (Disqus), and enhancing the user interface with theme modifications and a navigation menu. Furthermore, the user made performance improvements, optimized code, and added support for image uploading, demonstrating a focus on a complete and user-friendly blog platform.
razorblog-engineasp-net-core-mvc
madskristensen/ShortcutExporter
Dec 2013 - Aug 2022
Visual Studio extension
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mads primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end of the Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts website. The commits focused on fixing bugs, implementing media queries for responsive design, and refactoring the codebase for better performance. Additionally, the user added support for multiple Visual Studio versions and included a link to the Visual Studio extension.
visual-studio-extensionvisual-studio
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