Matt Hidinger
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatt Hidinger is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft in Seattle with 14 years of experience blending product leadership and hands-on engineering. He leads the Adaptive Cards project—an influential open-source initiative for cross-platform UI cards—bringing practical front-end expertise in C#, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript to product decisions. Known for shipping visual tooling, he contributed an early visualizer that shaped how developers design and preview cards. Matt pairs strategic roadmap thinking with a developer-first sensibility, prioritizing UX and interoperability across platforms. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex integration requirements into clear, usable interfaces that scale across Microsoft’s ecosystem. He thrives at the intersection of open source and enterprise product development, enjoying the challenge of aligning community needs with corporate product goals.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
user-interface10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
html9
javascript8
css8
xaml7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AdaptiveCards
Oct 2016 - Jul 2021
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 29 reviews, 685 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily involve adding an early version of a visualizer for Adaptive Cards. Their work focuses on building UI components using C# (as indicated by the InteractiveVisualizer.csproj file) and likely involves interaction with web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (as shown by the index.html file that includes ace.js and other related files). They are also responsible for layout and design.
exchangeadaptiveioswpfadaptivecards
matthidinger/matthidinger.github.io
May 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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