Tim Heuer
Principal Product Manager Lead at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarTim Heuer is a principal product leader with 19 years of experience shaping developer platforms, tools, and ecosystems—currently leading .NET developer experiences at Microsoft from Redmond. He blends hands-on engineering and product strategy, having worked as a software architect, application developer, and technical PM to deliver global-scale frameworks, tooling, and DevOps orchestration. An active open-source contributor, Tim has improved core .NET libraries and tooling—contributing to projects like sqlite-net and dotnet/aspire with backend integrations and observability enhancements. Known for developer advocacy and evangelism, he builds teams and programs that translate real developer needs into shipped products across Visual Studio, VS Code, and cloud tooling. He continues to code and learn modern platform patterns, bringing a rare combination of customer-driven product instincts and deep framework-level technical expertise.
19 years of coding experience
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windows-runtime
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Github Skills (34)
content-management-system10
silverlight10
sqlite10
mysql10
windows10
net10
databases10
dotnet10
distributed-systems10
mongodb-database10
asp-net10
content-management10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
mongodb10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/cloud-developer-advocates
Sep 2017 - Nov 2019
Site content for the site listing the Cloud Advocacy team within Developer Relations at Microsoft.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Content Strategist
Technical Writer / Content StrategistContributions:199 commits, 125 PRs, 105 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributes to the project by modifying the content and structure of the `FromYmlToTOC-INDEX.ps1` file, likely used for generating the table of contents and index pages for the website. Their changes include modifying the title and description metadata, and adding content related to new profiles. These contributions focus on content updates and organization. The user also resolves minor issues, such as incorporating Unicode characters.
relationsadvocacydeveloper-relationsmicrosoftazure
dotnet/aspire
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Tools, templates, and packages to accelerate building observable, production-ready apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 23 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tim contributed significantly to the `dotnet/aspire` repository, focusing on extending the functionality of MySql and MongoDB integration. Their work involved adding support for phpMyAdmin and MongoExpress, developing extensions, and adding tests. They also addressed port/endpoint issues and refactored tests, and contributed to dashboard elements.
cloudcloud-nativedistributed-systemsdotnetdotnet-core
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