Mads Kristensen

Principal Product Manager, Visual Studio

Microsoft

Mads Kristensen is a Principal Product Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft, where he focuses on improving the everyday experience of developers using the IDE. With a deep passion for productivity, performance, and extensibility, Mads has built a reputation for making Visual Studio more powerful and user-friendly—both through his role at Microsoft and his prolific work in the open-source community. He is the creator of dozens of popular Visual Studio extensions, including Web Essentials, File Nesting, and Solution Error Visualizer, and he maintains the Extensibility Essentials toolkit to help other developers build better extensions. Known for his engaging presentations and practical insights, Mads is a frequent speaker at developer conferences worldwide. His mission is simple: to make Visual Studio the most delightful development environment on the planet.