Microsoft Projects and Research

From education to product development, from community advocacy to prototyping, Matthias worked tiressly at Microsoft to bring the best technology to developers and the best developers to Microsoft technology.

Windows / Windows Phone Developer Advocate

When Microsoft released Windows and Windows Phone 8.1, there was the need for a compelling developer story about building an application one time and running it on a billion devices of all shapes and sizes.

Matthias told this story through educational materials, building reference applications and samples, and leading Windows hackathons across the world.

Inside Windows Phone

Matthias hosted the Channel 9 show Inside Windows Phone and partnered with Windows developers to share their success stories at conferences and helped bring their feature requests to the Windows team.

Demos, Samples, and Reference Apps

When an internal team needed clear and precise demos of a Windows feature, Matthias coordinated with the feature leads to collect, promote, and create demos with those features.

He often presented these at conferences and brought feedback from these events to the teams in the form of feature requests and developer-driven improvements.

Hololens Developer Advocacy

When Microsoft announced Hololens, a bleeding-edge augmented reality device, Matthias led the dev story for this device. This included writing tutorials and cirriculum and highlighting the possibilities of Hololens with demos and samples.

Th demo below featured a visualization of flight path data projected by the Hololens onto a flat surface. This was popular among developers because a new Hololens developer could be given the data and build a simple version of this app in a few hours.

MLB Advanced Media / Disney Streaming

Matthias joined MLB Advanced Media to help build the world's best streaming applications for Xbox and Windows

When Disney bought MLBAM, he became a part of the story of Disney's race to jump into the streaming world with Disney+

NHL.TV (Xbox/Windows)

Matthias became the lead developer for NHL.TV streaming app for Xbox / Windows. In this role, he led the development through several key feature additions including

• a special bracket page for the Stanley Cup playoff season
• the addition of the Las Vegas Golden Knights to the lineup of teams
• live previews of in-progress games

ESPN+ (Xbox/Playstation)

Matthias developed the ESPN+ streaming application for both XBox and Playstation. The variety of ESPN+ programming and the overwhelming streaming demand for pay-per-view UFC events made ESPN+ and enormously complex project with sharp deadlines and rewarding challenges.

Disney+ (Xbox/Windows)

Disney bought MLB Advanced Media, Matthias' work with the Disney+ team resulted in the fastest and most compelling experience among all the streaming devices.

When Bob Iger announced the details of Disney+ on the Disney Investor Day, the demo he chose to highlight was the Xbox app.

Data Visualization

Matthias is a contributing author to best-selling data visualization compilation “Beautiful Visualization" and is a data vis speaker and educator (MIX, IFTA, IEEE, Leadership Institute)

He builds visualizations in JavaScript and XAML and has authored visualizations on a range of topics including literature, genetics, finance, media coverage, employment statistics, real-time sensor data, and mobile application usage metrics

Beautiful Visualization

Contributing author to the best-selling O'Reilly visualization tome, Matthias wrote a chapter to help novices develop data visualization skills

Game of Thrones Visualization

Just for fun, Matthias wrote a ProcessingJS application showing the narrative perspectives of the many characters in the Game of Thrones books. You can interact with it here

Genetics Visualization (SNP Research)

Using scraped data from OpenSNP.org, this visual shows the most researched genes in the human genome.

Matthias wrote a tutorial for other data-minded developers who want to explore genetics data.

Map of the Job Market

Utilizing BLS jobs data, this interactive treemap showed the US job market across industries (data from 2013). The data can be explored in an interactive chart here.