Michael Thomsen
Group Product Manager at Google
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolMichael Thomsen is a Group Product Manager at Google with over a decade of experience shaping developer platforms, most notably leading product work on the Dart language and Flutter framework. He combines deep technical chops—contributions across Flutter, Dart SDK, pub.dev, and protobuf.dart—with product leadership stretching back to platform roles at Microsoft driving Windows Phone and Dynamics tooling. Michael is hands-on in open source, adding iOS device info to Flutter's device_info package, improving pub.dev's frontend, and modernizing build and CI tooling for the Flutter website. He excels at bridging developer experience, tooling, and cross-platform runtime concerns, and brings a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Aarhus to his product decisions. A pragmatic collaborator, he pairs platform-level vision with regular code, test, and CI contributions, demonstrating a rare blend of product leadership and day-to-day engineering.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Aarhus, DenmarkHigh School, High School at Frederikshavn High School
Danish, English
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Github Skills (56)
dependency-management10
programming-language10
javascript10
develop10
ios10
website-development10
flutter-apps10
wp-api10
null-safety10
testing10
bash10
build-system10
winapi10
travis-ci10
cffi10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dart-lang/site-www
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
The source for the Dart website.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:364 reviews, 185 commits, 390 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the site's front-end aspects. Their work involved updating the version menu items, making site redesign changes to the homepage layout, and modifying the tagline. They also added a "Get Dart" navigation link, updated banner content, and improved the sizing of embedded DartPad examples. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user interface and website content.
flutterdart
dart-lang/samples
Sep 2019 - May 2022
A collection of Dart code samples by Dart DevRel
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 18 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to a Dart code sample repository, focusing on interacting with system-level functionalities using the Dart FFI (Foreign Function Interface). The primary contribution involved implementing platform-specific system command executions, including opening URLs, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The user refactored the code based on review feedback, and updated the project by upgrading the FFI version and adding headers.
flutterdartlangdartdevrel
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