Patrick Brosset
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Greater Dijon Area France
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Top SchoolPatrick Brosset is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with 14 years of experience building high-traffic web applications and developer tools. He combines deep front-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Chrome DevTools and the webhint project—with product leadership that moved him from senior engineer roles at Mozilla into product management at Microsoft. Comfortable across JavaScript, CSS, Python and Java, he focuses on maintainable architectures, testing-first workflows, and developer UX. His open-source work includes improving E2E tests in DevTools and adding compatibility checks for IE flexbox in webhint, showing an attention to cross-browser robustness. Based in the Greater Dijon area, he pairs technical craft with process improvements and team coaching to deliver measurable developer and user value. Colleagues describe him as a rapid learner who translates low-level implementation detail into product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Telecommunications, Master's degree Telecommunications at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyEngineer degree Telecommunication, Engineer degree Telecommunication at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
English, French
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Github Skills (31)
e2e-testing10
puppeteer10
javascript10
static-code-analysis10
e2e-test10
css10
css-grid10
typescript10
eslint10
microsoft-edge10
automation10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
linter10
nodejs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/edge-developer
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Developer documentation for Edge.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Automation Engineer
Technical Writer & Automation EngineerContributions:773 reviews, 744 commits, 866 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the repository by automating tasks related to documentation maintenance and improving the accuracy of content related to the Microsoft Edge browser. Their commits include the development of a script to detect and report outdated version references in the documentation, a script to insert missing headings separators, and a migration of the node-fetch import. They also addressed specific documentation inconsistencies and integrated a new build for the PWA what's new pages.
developer-documentationedgeextensionsmicrosoftdevtools
ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
May 2020 - Jun 2021
The Chrome DevTools UI
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:130 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to the development of the Chrome DevTools UI by implementing and enhancing E2E tests. They added new tests for the performance panel, the styles and computed panes, the Changes panel, and the Network panel to ensure the correct functionality and interactions within the DevTools interface. Their work involved writing tests for various features such as color swatches, grid and flex overlays, and the display of CSS variables. Additionally, they refactored and improved existing tests to improve reliability.
chromedevtoolschrome-devtoolsjavascriptinstrumentation
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