Hey all! I've been at Microsoft for >11 years, and have had the pleasure of working on everything from ASP.NET, the JavaScript/debugger editor in Visual Studio, the IE developer tools (performance/memory profilers), OData (aka GraphQL before it was cool), our Node.js support in Azure, and CodePush. So I've spent a lot of time caring about web development, DevOps, cloud and productivity. My current passion/focus is developer collaboration and how it can be fundamentally improved to better meet the diverse needs of teams.

I've recently joined the DEV.to community (which I love!), to share my thoughts on why our team built Visual Studio Live Share, and what makes it potentially interesting (only you can really judge that):

• In Pursuit of Enjoyable Developer Collaboration
• Localhost isn't local anymore
• Collaboration Doesn't Come in "One Size Fits All"

While Live Share provides an experience for real-time collaboration, my team is also working on services to make async collaboration more efficient as well. So we're interested in trying to enhance collaboration holistically.

I'm curious to hear how teams are collaborating, and what about your current tools/processes are good and bad. That said, feel free to ask me anything about Live Share, my career, my development preferences, being a PM, or anything else! I can’t guarantee I’ll have an answer for everything, but at a minimum, I’ll try to be interesting and transparent 🤗