Harald Kirschner

VS Code Team Member

I'm Harald Kirschner, a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft working on Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, supporting over 40 million active developers code faster and more efficiently across virtually any programming language. Before Microsoft, I led Developer Experience at Mozilla, where I led Firefox DevTools and helped deliver Firefox Quantum, which doubled browser performance. My background in software engineering, including early work on MooTools, gives me hands-on insight into the challenges developers face daily. When I'm not working, I enjoy hiking California's coastal trails and experimenting with generative art. As a speaker at the AI Engineer Summit, I'm excited to share insights from our work on AI coding tools and Model Context Protocol to help developers achieve flow state even in complex environments.

Sessions

Workshops Workshop
Real-World Development with GitHub Copilot and VS Code
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Salons 2-6: Workshops
MCP Talk
Full Spectrum MCP: Uncovering Hidden Servers and Clients Capabilities
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP