Harald Kirschner shapes how millions of developers write software as a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft. He builds tools for Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot to help people code faster.
His talk on building VS Code explores the shift toward autonomous AI workflows and how multi-agent architectures are changing modern software design. Before Microsoft, he led Developer Experience at Mozilla and helped deliver Firefox Quantum.
When he isn’t thinking about developer environments, Harald hikes California’s coastal trails and experiments with generative art.
