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2026
Today
Still building developer tools. Curious what I am working on? Find me on LinkedIn.
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2011
Microsoft
One of the first engineers building Visual Studio Code — when it was still called
MonacoZollikon. Today VS Code is the world's most popular code editor and Microsoft's most successful open source project. Fifteen years in, some highlights:- Owned the workbench, worked on views, editors and implemented a ton of things
- Enabled cross-platform support via Electron integration
- Worked on remote, web and sandbox support
- Finally added floating windows support
- Gave a talk at GitHub Universe, had fun sharing our story and giving an interview about VS Code
- Championed Copilot growth
- Committed code across 3,473 days
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2005
IBM
Joined IBM to work on Rational Team Concert, Eclipse-based tools for team collaboration and software development — in the work items team, the issue tracker component.
- Built Lucene-based full-text search and duplicate issue detection
- Added the Team Central view
- Implemented RSS feed support
- Filed a patent!
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Side projects
Always building on the side — Firlefanz.li, bedtime stories for kids; Tract, a web based feed reader; and RSSOwl, an open source RSS and Atom news reader I started in 2001 that became SourceForge's Project of the Month.
RSSOwl is where it all began — the spark for everything above.