Richard Stanton
GTM Product Marketing Manager - Hardware at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Stanton is a GTM product marketing leader with a decade of experience shaping consumer hardware and education technology strategies for companies like Meta and Amazon. He combines an MBA-backed analytical approach with early-stage founder instincts, having co-founded digital learning firms and led P&L responsibilities for K‑12 education and Fire Tablets. Known for translating unmet user needs into compelling product stories, he has driven category growth, global go-to-market execution, and partnerships across education and consumer segments. Based in Seattle, he blends hands-on technical empathy—evidenced by open-source contributions to Microsoft’s MIEngine debugger—with a passion for devices that enrich everyday life through entertainment and connection.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance & Change Management, MBA Finance & Change Management at Carleton UniversityCertificate Product Design Development & Management (Executive Program), Certificate Product Design Development & Management (Executive Program) at MIT Sloan School of Management
Github Skills (9)
debugging10
gdb10
debug10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
asp-net9
net9
dotnet9
localization8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MIEngine
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
The Visual Studio MI Debug Engine ("MIEngine") provides an open-source Visual Studio Debugger extension that works with MI-enabled debuggers such as gdb and lldb.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Richard made several contributions focused on improving the MI Debug Engine's functionality. They fixed a bug in breakpoint resolution related to GDB, ensuring breakpoints resolved to the correct line. The user also optimized the engine by limiting the number of children fetched to prevent hangs and implemented a dispose pattern to properly clean up a Unix port to prevent errors. Furthermore, the user worked on localizing the SSH provider project, which included addressing directory casing.
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richardstanton/MIEngine
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
The Visual Studio MI Debug Engine ("MIEngine") provides an open-source Visual Studio Debugger extension that works with MI-enabled debuggers such as gdb, lldb, and clrdbg.
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 10 months
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