Jacob Rossi

Greater Seattle Area United States

Senior Program Manager at Microsoft

Technology / Software / Internet

My passion is making the web awesome. I've worked in in the web standards community for over 5 years and contribute to numerous Working Groups at the W3C (HTML, Web Apps, Pointer Events, CSS, Web App Security). I'm the author and current editor of the Pointer Events web standard and have served as editor on numerous other specifications. For Internet Explorer and now Microsoft Edge, I've worked on the implementation on numerous web platform features. In particular, I focused for several years on reimagining touch, pen, mouse, Kinect, and other forms of input for the web. I currently work on the Standards Engagement & Developer Ecosystem team for Microsoft Edge, our new browser that re...