Marc Goodner
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Goodner is a Principal Program Manager with 12+ years at Microsoft, currently leading AI innovation projects in the Office of the CTO after a long tenure shaping C++ cross-platform developer experiences for Azure Sphere, IoT, and Linux in Visual Studio. He combines deep release and program management expertise—dating back to .NET and identity platform releases—with hands-on product leadership that turned remote Linux tooling and Azure Sphere support into production-grade capabilities used by major customers. Marc frequently represents teams at conferences and runs hands-on labs, pairing customer-facing advocacy with internal program rigor. His open-source contributions show a practical full-stack bent, improving developer tooling like a robust file-editing utility with git-style previews and whitespace-preserving edits. Based in Kirkland, he brings a rare mix of standards-driven technical diplomacy from earlier standards work and a maker-hacker community background that keeps him grounded in hardware and developer needs.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
No Video Holography, No Video Holography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
git10
javascript10
strings10
file-writing10
difflib10
text-manipulation10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
text-editing10
editing10
diff310
zod9
azure6
azure-sphere6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
modelcontextprotocol/servers
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Model Context Protocol Servers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marc primarily worked on implementing and refining a file editing tool within the project. Their contributions include adding a "edit_file" tool with features such as search and replace, with git-style preview functionality, and improving its reliability. They also focused on enhancing the tool's capabilities to include whitespace and indentation preservation, suggesting a focus on robust and user-friendly text manipulation within the application. Finally, the user improved the existing line numbering in their code.
robotdad/semanticworkbench
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
A versatile tool designed to help prototype intelligent assistants, agents and multi-agentic systems
Contributions:1 PR, 83 pushes, 35 branches in 7 months
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