Michael Hochkeppel
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMichael Hochkeppel is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 15+ years of experience building consumer and mixed-reality experiences, browser features, and developer tooling. He has driven cross-cutting work in Edge—ranging from Progressive Web Apps and on-device AI to rendering/layout—and led teams that ship both C++ engine features and higher-level JS/HTML integrations. Earlier roles include architecting Unity-based MR apps, modernizing build and localization pipelines, and redesigning core UI frameworks for Windows apps. An active contributor to KhronosGroup’s UnityGLTF project, he’s implemented vertex color support, thread-safe extension APIs, and tooling fixes that improved UWP builds—showing a knack for both graphics shader work and build-system reliability. Based in Kirkland, WA, he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership and a track record of operational improvements in telemetry, code quality, and developer productivity. Known for pragmatic architecture decisions, he often bridges platform internals and app-level features to accelerate product delivery.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (7)
csharp10
gltf10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
shader9
shaderlab8
msbuild8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KhronosGroup/UnityGLTF
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
Runtime glTF 2.0 Loader for Unity3D
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 29 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael made significant contributions to the `unitygltf` repository, enhancing its capabilities and maintainability. They implemented vertex color support, which involved shader modifications and updates to the shader GUI. Furthermore, the user added thread-safe APIs for extension registration. Additionally, they improved the build process with MSBuildForUnity, addressing UWP build errors and performing warnings cleanup.
gltfunity3d
mhochk/custom-manifest-pwa
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.