Tarek Madkour
Group Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Team
Microsoft
Tarek Madkour is the Group Program Manager for the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft. Tarek’s team is responsible for delivering the Visual Studio IDE experiences for editing, building and debugging applications. Prior to this, Tarek was the Group Program Manager for the Visual C++ team at Microsoft responsible for delivering the compilers, libraries, runtimes that enable developers to create great native applications on the Microsoft platforms. Tarek is a tool maker by passion and trade. Ever since joining Microsoft a decade and a half ago, he spent all his time working on the various aspects of development tools. Prior to Microsoft, Tarek was a software developer and manager working on several system-level technologies. Outside work, Tarek spends his time being a kid again with his three little kids and creating chaos with his "home improvement" projects. When he gives up, you can find him on a sunny beach somewhere.