Jonathan Carter
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonathan Carter is a Principal Program Manager based in Seattle with 11 years of professional experience driving developer tooling and cloud integrations at Microsoft and in open source. He blends full-stack engineering, mobile (iOS/Android), and DevOps sensibilities to ship developer-first experiences—most notably VS Code extensions like CodeTour and GistPad and contributions to Microsoft CodePush and the VS Code Docker extension. His work spans UX polish and CLI/automation improvements to deeper cloud integrations such as Serverless Azure Functions and interactive Azure authentication. A practical tinkerer, he builds "tools for thought" (gistpad.dev) and creates whimsically named extensions while solving real-world compatibility and performance issues across platforms. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product thinking and hands-on implementation, from backgrounding expensive iOS operations to adding user-facing commands like whoami in CLI tooling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (49)
javascript10
docker10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
cordova10
command-line-interface10
azure-functions10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
docker-compose10
microsoft-azure10
vscode-extension10
dockers10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/codetour
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
VS Code extension that allows you to record and play back guided tours of codebases, directly within the editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 7 reviews, 203 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the `microsoft/codetour` project by implementing features for the VS Code extension. Their work included updating UI elements, modifying the status bar, and creating commands for recording and managing code tours. The user also worked on the integration of the tour functionality, including adding support for tree view and commands to manage the tour steps and content. Furthermore, they made efforts to enhance the user experience through improvements to existing features and adding new functionalities like support for links and snippets.
vscode-extensionvscodeknowledge-sharingcode-navigationonboarding
lostintangent/gistpad
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
📘 VS Code extension for managing and sharing code snippets, notes and interactive samples using GitHub Gists
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 43 reviews, 362 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the development of the "GistPad" VS Code extension, adding features related to code snippet management, and creating various commands. The commits show a focus on both front-end and back-end development, implementing new commands for creating and managing gists, including functionality for starred gists and integrating the code with the file system. The user worked on both UI and backend code, showing full-stack expertise within the context of the project.
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