Matthias Knoll
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthias Knoll is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 14 years of experience building large-scale client-side web applications, currently leading architecture and delivery at Microsoft. He cut his teeth on the Skype web client and Teams platform, contributing to modular refactors, CI pipelines, and user onboarding improvements that serve millions of users. Known for pragmatic front-end craftsmanship, he has shipped UI, audio P2P samples, chat escalation features and documentation improvements for the Skype Web SDK. Matthias combines deep product-focused engineering with hands-on implementation—spanning performance, style/markup modernization, and telemetry to measure service health. He started in small agencies and scale-ups where he owned full-stack delivery, which informs his ability to translate design and business needs into robust web solutions. Based in Seattle with a BSc in Media Technology and Design, he blends technical leadership with a keen sense for user experience and developer ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Media-technology and -design, BSc Media-technology and -design at University of Applies Sciences Campus Hagenberg
English, German, Italian
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/skype-docs
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
This repository contains the content of the Skype Web SDK documentation. To review your PR, contact lindalu@microsoft.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 37 PRs, 56 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Skype Web SDK documentation and samples. Their contributions include adding new audio P2P samples, implementing features for chat escalation, and refactoring the notification bar. They also made style and image fixes and extracted an anonymous meeting join sample into a standalone version.
web-sdkskypesdkreviewsdk-documentation
kohlikohl/resume
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
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