Matt Cooper
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Cooper is a Principal Product Manager with 13 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and tools, currently driving product at Microsoft after leading Git Systems and related services at GitHub. He specializes in version control, CI/CD, and DevOps infrastructure—hands-on work that spans shipping GitHub features like GHES repository cache and LFS billing models to contributing code and build improvements in high-profile open-source projects such as git and Azure Pipelines. Known for turning prototypes into production (from Xbox hacks to VS Code pipeline helpers), he blends deep technical fluency with people leadership and mentoring, having scaled product teams and coached other PMs. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with practical contributions that address platform-level edge cases—like cross-platform large-file handling and credential caching—illustrating a penchant for solving the gritty, often overlooked problems that enable reliable developer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Virginia TechFarragut High School
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Github Skills (46)
azure-devops-server10
nuget10
git10
filesystem10
docker10
multiplatform10
windows10
net10
dotnet10
cross-platform10
internals10
file-operations10
c1110
dockers10
cicd10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Azure Pipelines Agent 🚀
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 64 commits, 84 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the infrastructure and build process of the Azure Pipelines Agent, focusing on platform-specific configurations and cross-platform compatibility. They refactored code to remove platform-specific conditional compilation and introduced utilities for determining the operating system and architecture at runtime. Furthermore, they made changes to the build scripts, and agent configuration to support the development and deployment of the agent.
azure-pipelines-agentazure-pipelinesagentazurepipelines
microsoft/azure-devops-dotnet-samples
May 2017 - Jun 2020
.NET/C# samples for integrating with Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 50 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions primarily involve creating and modifying .NET/C# samples for integrating with Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server. They implemented features such as listing branches, creating and deleting branches, and listing pull requests. Furthermore, they added samples for listing items and pushes, demonstrating their focus on expanding the capabilities of the sample library.
azure-devops-serverdevopsdevops-servicesazureintegrating
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