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This list showcases the top United States based Principal operating in the Operating Systems space. If you think a Principal is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kuleen Bharadwaj
Principal PM Manager of Microsoft
Kuleen leads an engineering growth hacking team focused on helping Microsoft partners find business success with Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. He has held several product management roles in his 14 years at Microsoft across security, infrastructure, database, device, and business applications. He holds an Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and also graduated as a Palmer Scholar with an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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John Savill
Principal Cloud Solution Architect of Microsoft
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Scott Hanselman
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Bhairav Mehta
Principal Data Scientist Manager of Microsoft
Experienced engineer, entrepreneur and seasoned Statistician / programmer with 14 years of combined experience working on product service/ channel /warranty management in electronics consumer products industry at Apple Inc. (4 years), yield engineering in semiconductor manufacturing at Qualcomm (6 years) and quality engineering in automotive industry at Ford Motor Company (OEM, Tier2 Suppliers) (3 years). MBA from Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, 3 Master of Science (MS) degrees in diverse engineering and mathematical sciences. Industrial Systems Engineering (Rochester ’02), Applied Statistics (Cornell ’04)..Developed skills in Big Data, Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark for Scalability and implementation of big data solution for the enterprises. Cloudera certified Hadoop developer, Cloudera certified Data Scientist and Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate. Industry renowned ASQ certifications: Certified Quality Engineer (CQE ’06), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE ’07) and Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CSSBB ’09). Skills across hardware and software platforms. Naturalized US Citizen.
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Jamie Gaudette
Principal Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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James Montemagno
Principal Lead Program Manager, .NET Community of Microsoft
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop.
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Idan Levin
Principal Group Engineering Manager of Microsoft
Idan Levin is Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
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David Fowler
Principal Software Architect of Microsoft
David Fowler was born and raised in Barbados. He attended university in Florida (Florida Tech), where he had 2 internships at MSFT before joining full time in 2008. David has worked on several projects including ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET WebPage. He wrote the git server for Azure deployments (kudu) and was one of the creators of NuGet, and SignalR. He is a senior developer on the ASP.NET team currently working full time on SignalR.
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Abel Wang
Principal Cloud Developer Advocate of Microsoft
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Nitika Gupta
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Maria Puertas Calvo
Principal Data Science Manager – Identity Division of Microsoft
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Larry W Jordan Jr
Principal Engineering Lead (IoT) of Microsoft
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Hans Reutter
Principal Group Engineering Manager of Microsoft
Hans Reutter is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Microsoft’s Core Services Engineering group. He is responsible for SAP Order-To-Cash Software Engineering. Before joining Microsoft in 1997 he worked as a SAP Consultant for a technology company in Ohio and as a computer science research assistant at Fraunhofer Society in Germany. In his current role he champions Agile and Devops methodologies, business process monitoring and telemetry, cloud migration, cloud optimization and operational best practices while pursuing his passions of SAP Enterprise Services and Service Resilience. Hans has presented at ASUG, SAPPHIRE Inspire and frequently speaks to customers around the world about Microsoft’s SAP IT strategies. He has a MS degree in Computer Science (Operations Research) from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Computer Science (Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany.
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Sangeeta Ranjit
Principal Program Manager Lead of Microsoft
Sangeeta is a Principle PM Manager leading Customer Identity Access Management and B2B Collaboration for the Azure Active Directory business. She joined Microsoft in 2000 as a Software Engineer in the Windows team. As a Program Manager at Microsoft since 2006, Sangeeta evolved the user experiences for printing, cloud file sync, lock screen and sign in, and most recently Windows Hello – the biometrics authentication experiences in Windows, through multiple releases of Windows. Sangeeta holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from SDM College of Engineering and Technology in India. She moved to the United States in 1999 to pursue a master’s degree in Computer Science. While at Microsoft, she also got her MBA from Seattle University. Sangeeta lives in the Seattle area where she enjoys exploring the hiking trails in her spare time.
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Edet Nkposong
Principal Engineering ManagerMicrosoft of Microsoft
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Damian Edwards
Principal PM Architect of Microsoft
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Kate Crawford
Principal Researcher of Microsoft
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, a Visiting Professor at MIT’s Center for Civic Media, and a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Information Law Institute. Her research addresses the social impacts of big data, and she’s currently writing a new book on data and power with Yale University Press. She is on the advisory boards of the Information Program at George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, The New Museum’s art and technology incubator NEW INC, and several academic journals including Big Data and Society. In 2013, she was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio fellow, where she worked on issues to do with big data, ethics and communities. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Data for Development, and a co-director of the Council for Big Data, Ethics & Society. Apart from the academic stuff, Kate has also written for The Atlantic, The New York Times and The New Inquiry.
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Arvind Suthar
Principal Program Manager Lead of Microsoft
Arvind is a Principal PM Manager in the Azure AD Customer Success team where he leads a team focused on complex orgs and M&A. Previously, Arvind worked in the core Azure AD directory team and focused on: B2B (sharing company resources with partner managed identities); Directory extensibility (tenant-specific extension attributes); Complex orgs (multi-nationals, mergers & splits, departmental adoption, data sovereignty, tiered admin). Prior to Azure AD, Arvind was the service owner for BPOS, Microsoft’s multi-tenant enterprise productivity service that preceded Office 365. Arvind received a BA in Computer Science, a BA in Economics, and an MBA, all from U.C. Berkeley.
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Ben Hilburn
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Ben Hilburn is the Director of Engineering at DeepSig Inc., which is commercializing the fundamental research behind deep learning applied to wireless communications and signal processing. He also runs GNU Radio, the most widely used open-source signal processing toolkit in the world, serving as Project Lead and President of The GNU Radio Foundation. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech in Computer Engineering, with minors in Mathematics and Computer Science, and went on to become the first Hume Fellow at the Hume Center for National Security and Technology. He works heavily in the open-source software community, providing guidance to government, industry, and academia. Ben lives and works in the Northern Virginia area, and enjoys talking shop over beers.
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Kay Williams
Azure Office of the CTO – Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Kay is a Principal Program Manager in the Enterprise Open Source Group at Microsoft. Her team works to accelerate the pace of innovation on Linux in Azure. Kay spends her time collaborating across teams to design, develop and contribute new features to Linux; to simplify Linux configuration and deployment (including containers); to benchmark and tune performance; and to partner with support and customers to provide the best possible Linux experience. Kay has over 25 years’ experience including 13 years at Microsoft and 13 years in Linux-based startups.
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Ian Story
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Ian Story is a Principal Program Manager on Microsoft’s OneDrive and SharePoint leadership team. In this role, he focuses on industry solutions, partnerships and customer interaction, while being a subject matter expert on Content Services / Enterprise Content Management and Content Collaboration Platforms / Enterprise File Sync and Share. Ian is also Microsoft’s representative on the board of directors for The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and has nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, much of it as a customer within large Fortune 500 organizations.
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Amer Hassan
Senior Director, Principal Group Program Manager, Skype Business Services of Microsoft
Amer Hassan is a Senior Director, Principal Group Program Manager, Skype Business Services at Microsoft.
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David Gedye
Principal Program Manager, Azure Spatial Anchors of Microsoft
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Yoni Leibowitz
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
Yoni Leibowitz is a principal software engineer on the Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) team, which he joined back when the service was still in an early stage of incubation. While being very hands on and focusing on the platform’s data engine, Yoni maintains a customer-obsessed state of mind, works closely with customers at all scales, and supports the growing community of users of the service and the Kusto query language.
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Ankur Patel
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Ankur Patel leads Growth for Identity @ Microsoft. In recent times, he has led the effort for connecting LinkedIn, the world’s leading professional graph and Office 365, the world’s leading productivity graph. Currently, Ankur leads Microsoft’s efforts for a new form of identity for users to own and control their identity and associated data, powered with technology provided by Microsoft to empower everyone to achieve more.
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Aleks Lopez
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Aleks Lopez leads the global Desktop App Assure service, helping customers move to Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus by removing application compatibility blockers in their enterprise. She is a passionate customer advocate, having held a number of roles at Microsoft since 2002, all focused on enabling Microsoft’s customers’ success.
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Serina Kaye
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Serina Kaye is a Principal Program Manager in the Artificial Intelligence and Research Group at Microsoft. She currently works on the Azure Machine Learning team, focusing on creating tools and services that help data scientists be more productive. Prior to her role in Azure Machine Learning, Serina led the Creative Products team for Xbox Advertising and was a Group Manager at MSDN and MSN. Serina has over 20 years of industry experience delivering globally scaled products and services. She holds an MBA from the Michael G. Foster School of Business and grew up in Toronto, Canada.
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Rob Eisenberg
Principal UX Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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Bob Ward
Principal Architect of Microsoft
Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft SQL Server Data Services Group, which owns the development for all SQL Server versions. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 25 years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2017 including Linux. He has worked in customer support as a principal escalation engineer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), interacting with some of the largest SQL Server deployments in the world. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server, often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and performance at events such as SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQLIntersection, and Microsoft Ignite.
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Barbara Stortz
Principal Applied Science Manager of Microsoft
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Glenn Block
Principal PM Lead of Microsoft
Glenn Block is a seasoned leader with 20 years+ experience in software engineering and product management. He currently works at Microsoft on the Core Ecosystem Team where his team is responsible for Microsoft Graph and several services in M365. In the past Glenn has been a big supporter of the developer and open source community and was an early adopter of Open Source at Microsoft. He is passionate about moving the ball forward for creating a more inclusive and safe environment in tech. He invests a large amount of his energy in mentoring and advising in particular for black women and folks from marginalized groups and is actively working to change the status quo. He is a lifelong learner and is currently pursuing his Exec MBA at Seattle University.
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Harrison Hoffman
Principal Program Manager, Xbox of Microsoft
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Fabrice Canel
Principal Program Manager – BING of Microsoft
Fabrice is 20 years search veteran at Microsoft. Fabrice is a Principal Program Manager leading the team crawling, processing and indexing at Bing, so dealing with the hundreds of billions of new or updated web pages every day! In 2006, Fabrice joined the MSN Search Beta project and since this day, Fabrice is driving evolution of the Bing platform to insure the Bing index is fresh and comprehensive and he is responsible for the protocols and standards for Sitemaps.org and AMP on Bing. Prior to that MSN Search, Fabrice was the Lead Program Manager for search across Microsoft Web sites in a role covering all aspect of search from Search Engines technology to Search User Experience… to content in the very early days of SEO.
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Graham Mosley
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Xin Liu
Principal Development Manager of Microsoft
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Michael Smuga
Principal Program Manager Director and Chief Of Staff of Microsoft
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Gaurav Malhotra
Principal Group PM Manager of Microsoft
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Josh Lovejoy
Principal Design Manager of Microsoft
Josh leads design for Ethics & Society at Microsoft, guiding technical and experience innovation towards ethical, responsible, and sustainable outcomes. He believes that human-centered design thinking can change the world for the better; that by seeking to address the needs of people - especially those at the margins - in ways that respect, restore, and augment their capabilities, we can invent forms of technological innovation that would have otherwise been invisible.
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Shalini Gupta
Principal PM of Microsoft
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Craig Nelson
Principal Security Manager – Azure Red Team of Microsoft
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Pete Bernard
Principal Group Program Manager – Silicon and 5G Connectivity Partners of Microsoft
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Kyle Young
Principal PM Manager, Product Leader of Microsoft
Product leader for Dynamics 365 for Field Service and Resource Scheduling. Microsoft veteran with experience in business applications and cloud services.
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Lukasz Pawlowski
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Rita Zhang
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
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Katie Kivett
Principal Program Manager Lead of Microsoft
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Sandhya Rao
Principal Group Product Manager of Microsoft
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Charles Christian
Principal Engineer Manager of Microsoft
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Sunil Kamath
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Sunil Kamath is a Principal Group Program Manager within Azure Data team at Microsoft where he is responsible for creating the vision, strategy and drive the product management function for open source based managed databases services (MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB) on Azure. Prior to Microsoft, Sunil worked at IBM Toronto Labs for over 15 years and assumed several technical leadership and executive roles in the area of IBM cloud performance engineering, hardware and software co-engineering, and as the product performance architect for IBM’s flagship DB2 distributed database. He earned a M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Alberta.
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Andreas Stolcke
Principal Researcher of Microsoft
Andreas Stolcke received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He subsequently worked as a Senior Research Engineer in the Speech Technology and Research Laboratory at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, and is currently a Principal Researcher with the Speech and Dialog Research Group at Microsoft Research in Sunnyvale, CA; he is also an External Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA. Dr. Stolcke has done research in machine language learning, parsing, speech recognition, speaker recognition, and speech understanding, publishing more than 200 papers in these areas. He is also the author of a widely used open-source toolkit for statistical language modeling, and serves on the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
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Dominic Divakaruni
Principal Group Program Manager of Microsoft
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Rebecca Duffy
Principal Program Manager and Microsoft Cognitive Services of Microsoft
Rebecca Duffy is a principal program manager on the Applied AI engineering team at Microsoft. She’s passionate about building and shipping technology and teaming with a core group of expert AI developers to create and ship 15+ APIs and Cognitive Services that enable businesses to process and analyse their data in intelligent ways that haven’t been possible until now. She received a BA with honours from Indiana University in Classics and History and an MBA at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri.
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John Mark Agosta
Principal Applied Research Scientist of Microsoft
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Kyle Marsh
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Kyle is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Identity team working with developers. He has previously worked with developers on developing for Windows, Office, Unified Communications, as well as a developer lead on Microsoft Access and a founding member of the MSDN team.
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Steven Borg
Principal Group Program Manager of Microsoft
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Sharad Agarwal
Senior Principal Researcher of Microsoft
I am a computer science researcher, engineer, and angel investor in the Seattle tech industry. I have been with Microsoft Research for over 13 years, working on advanced & applied research in mobile computing, networking, and cloud services. I have advanced the state-of-the-art in several technical areas, including scalable cloud services, network traffic management, latency in multiplayer games, and geo-distributed online services. I have co-authored over 35 academic publications with over 4500 citations, and co-invented over 40 issued patents. I have served on over 40 committees for international conferences, workshops, journals and the NSF. I have worked closely with Microsoft business groups in my research, and have impacted Microsoft products, including Windows 10 and Windows Phone 8. Together with a small team of researchers and engineers, I’ve designed, implemented and stood up a scalable service on Azure that has served over 21 million users. I was recently named an ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding engineering contributions to computing.
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Amesh Mansukhani
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Amesh focuses on Office 365 ProPlus deployment methodologies within enterprise organizations. He originally joined Microsoft in 2003 and has had the opportunity to work on Windows security, Windows Mobile, and identity & access technologies. For over 15 years, his main focus has been on multi-tenancy applications and services. With the advent of cloud solutions and Office 365, Amesh has been at the forefront of the evolution of software as a service (SaaS) and has helped many mid-to-large enterprises take advantage of cloud solutions such as Exchange Online, Exchange Online Archiving, and Exchange Online Protection.
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Ketan Ghelani
Principal Group Program Manager of Microsoft
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Sean Knox
Principal Engineer of Microsoft
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Pratap Ladhani
Principal Program Manager, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and Common Data Service of Microsoft
Pratap is a Principal Program Manager in the Business Application Group, which is a part of the Cloud and Enterprise (C+E) Division in Microsoft. He focuses on Customer & Partner success for PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, and Common Data Service (CDS) and has been working with Microsoft for about 15 years.
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Adam Barrus
Principal Product Manager Lead of Microsoft
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Sarah Bird
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Sarah leads research and emerging technology strategy for AI developer products in Azure. Sarah works to accelerate the adoption and impact of AI by bringing together the latest innovations in machine learning and systems research with the best of open source and product expertise to create new tools and technologies. Sarah is active contributor to the open source ecosystem, she co-founded ONNX, an open source standard for machine learning models and was a leader in the PyTorch 1.0 project. Sarah’s research interests include machine learning systems and responsible AI. She was an early member of the machine learning systems research community and has been active in growing and forming the community. Previously, Sarah was a machine learning systems researcher in Microsoft Research NYC, where she worked on reinforcement learning systems and AI ethics. She co-founded the SysML research conference and the Learning Systems workshops. She has a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley advised by Dave Patterson, Krste Asanovic, and Burton Smith.
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Linda Simovic
Principal Group Product Manager of Microsoft
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Stefan Thom
Principal Security Architect for Trusted and Resilient IoT Solutions of Microsoft
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Katie Kelly
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft / Product Owner, AltspaceVR of Microsoft
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Shiraz Cupala
Principal Group Program / Product Manager – Microsoft Teams of Microsoft
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Michael Yagley
Principal Software Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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Reshmi Yandapalli
Principal PM, Azure Networking of Microsoft
Reshmi is a principal product manager at Microsoft with 15+ years of industry experience in networking and security. She joined Microsoft in 2015 to lead the Azure Network Virtual Appliance ecosystem platform capabilities. Across this portfolio, she has been responsible for value proposition, product functionality and partner enablement including engineering integration, product roadmap and industry engagement. Reshmi is also the product lead for Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN that became generally available in September 2018. Virtual WAN provides branch to branch and branch to azure connectivity with focus on ease of use and connectivity automation provided through an ecosystem of rich ISV partnerships. In her personal time, Reshmi follows her passion in medicine serving her community as an east asian medical doctor.
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Josh Brown-White
Principal Security Lead of Microsoft
Josh leads the Advanced Security Analysis team within Microsoft’s Customer Security and Trust group, where he and his team work to advance the SDL tooling and processes used by all engineering groups within Microsoft. He also serves as a security advisor to Microsoft’s Defending Democracy team, and at previous points was a Security Advisor for Windows, Azure, SQL Server, and Windows Phone (RIP). Josh has also worked as an Application Security Architect for both the HR/Payroll company ADP and for FedEx, as well as a couple smaller, now defunct companies (not his fault).
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Karuana Gatimu
Principal PM Manager, Customer Advocacy Group of Microsoft
Karuana Gatimu Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Working in Microsoft Teams engineering group I get to combine my passion for people and productivity. I’ve got 25 years experience in this space across all forms of on prem and cloud services including SharePoint, PowerBI and Skype. Check out my show, Coffee in the Cloud to learn more about Azure & O365.
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Mike Kaufman
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
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Nate Yohannes, JD
Principal Product Leader – Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality of Microsoft
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Jairo Cadena
Principal PM Manager of Microsoft
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Matthew Podwysocki
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
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Hani Loza
Principal PM Manager of Microsoft
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Michael Kelley
Principal PM Manager of Microsoft
Michael Kelley is a Principal Software Engineer in Microsoft’s Enterprise Open Source Group, working on Linux in Hyper-V, the Azure public cloud, and Azure Stack. He is currently working on Linux on ARM64 hardware and on Linux running in a Hyper-V Shielded VM. Michael has been a speaker on technical topics at dozens of Microsoft conferences and events over the years, as well as other industry and community events going all the way back to USENIX in the late 1980’s.
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Shree Sahasrabudhe
Principal Program Manager Lead of Microsoft
As a Program Manager on the Bing Experiences team, Shree and his team strive to deliver the best product quality and whole page experience for the most ubiquitous and essential online habit—search—in Bing. Before joining the Bing team, Shree was on the Health Solutions Group development team. Going back further, he helped build products in various early and mid-stage companies, focusing on areas of machine diagnostics, two-step authentication, and mobile software.
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Kristina Williams
Principal Engineering Manager, Azure Engineering CXP of Microsoft
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Igor Peev
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Adam Tuliper
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
Adam is a Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering division. Adam lives in Southern California and helps others realize their technical vision across mixed reality, web, gaming, cloud, console, mobile, and desktop platform. He is heavily addicted to his HoloLens, .NET Core, bots, Unity, and most .NET based technologies. He co-runs the Orange County Unity and the LA Mixed Reality meetup. Prior to Microsoft he worked as a software architect in defense, finance, pharma, manufacturing, technology, and public sector fields over a span of 20+ years. Adam also has taught for several colleges. He presents nationwide at conferences such as //build & GDC, loves speaking at user groups and universities, is a pluralsight.com author and an MSDN Magazine author.
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Karl Rautenstrauch
Principal Program Manager, Azure Storage of Microsoft
Karl is a member of the Azure Storage team focused on partners, ISVs, and customer engagements. He joins Engineering after four years as a Global Blackbelt and brings almost twenty years of experience as a customer and presales technical resource who has worked a local, regional, national and international levels. Karl has vast experience in Enterprise SAN and NAS, Cloud Infrastructure and Storage, Server Virtualization, Networking, IaaS, Backup, Disaster Recovery, and High Availability. He has a passion for helping partners and customers build their businesses on the foundation of Azure Storage!
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Holly Stewart
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft
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Steven Drucker
Principal Researcher and Manager of Microsoft
Steven M. Drucker is a Principal Researcher and manager of the Visualization and Interactive Data Analysis (VIDA) Group at Microsoft Research, focusing on human-computer interaction for dealing with large amounts of information. In particular, he is exploring democratizing the process of understanding and explaining information through the creation of tools that facilitate discovery and communication of insights through natural interaction and storytelling techniques. Drucker is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department. In the past, he has been a Principal Scientist in the LiveLabs Research Group at Microsoft, where he headed the Information Experiences Group working on user interaction and information visualization for web-based projects; a Lead Researcher in the Next Media Research Group examining how the addition of user interaction transforms conventional media; and Lead Researcher in the Virtual Worlds Group creating a platform for multi-user virtual environments. Drucker has filed over 120 patent, and has published papers on technologies as diverse as exploratory search, information visualization, multi-user environments, online social interaction, hypermedia research, human and robot perceptual capabilities, robot learning, parallel computer graphics, spectator oriented gaming, and human interfaces for camera control. Drucker received his PhD from the MIT Media Lab, with a focus on automatic camera control and navigation in virtual environments; an MS from the AI Laboratory at MIT on robot learning; and his BS in neurosciences from Brown University.
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Ravi Jaiswal
Principal Software Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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Maithili Dandige
Principal Group Program Manager – Office 365 Information Protection of Microsoft
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Andy Beach
Principal Technical PM, Media & Comms of Microsoft
Media geek for life, working for Microsoft these days. Happiest when I’m helping customers and partners take advantage of the cloud and Data/AI to modernize the media ecosystem.
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Sergey Bykov
Principal Software Engineering Manager / PlayFab of Microsoft
Creator of Microsoft Orleans
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Andrew Liu
Principal PM Manager – Azure Cosmos DB of Microsoft
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Dilip Radhakrishnan
Principal PM Manager of Microsoft
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James Terwilliger
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
James is a 10-year veteran at Microsoft, having spent time on both product and research teams. He began as an intern during the last year of his PhD research at Portland State University. His background is in innovative data query and exploration interfaces and streaming data processing.
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Daniel Escapa
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Aaratee Rao
Principal Group Manager of Microsoft
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Eran Barak
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Eran Barak is the Principal Program Manager at Microsoft.
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Konstantin Ryvkin
Principal Architect of Microsoft
Konstantin is a Architect in the Office 365 Product Group. He is a part of the Enterprise Cloud team responsible on designing and optimizing Office 365 features for large enterprises and government organizations. Konstantin’s current focus is developing modern architectures, reference models and integrated solutions that allow enterprises to easily connect and consume Office 365 cloud in efficient, performant and future proof way. Konstantin’s involvement with the Cloud started more than a decade ago when he was working on Microsoft Managed Solutions and Microsoft BPOS services for enterprises, which predated and influenced modern SaaS landscape for collaboration services.
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Henry N. Jerez
Principal Group Product and Program Manager, Intelligent Edge Solutions Platform Group of Microsoft
Henry Jerez leads the Intelligent Edge Solutions Platform Group that covers Azure Stack and Databox Edge. Henry holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering and has previously lead the Azure Machine Learning Inferencing Group. The Hololens Human Understanding Group and the IaaS Linux on Azure Effort at Microsoft. Henry has a background in Research and Product management in Distributed Systems and AI that spans, Los Alamos National Lab, CNRI, MSR and Facebook.
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Christina Compy
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Christina Compy is a principal program manager at Microsoft.
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Yina Arenas
Principal Group Program Manager of Microsoft
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Dan Kershaw
Principal Program Manager (Office 365) of Microsoft
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Trevor Carnahan
Principal Group Engineering Manager of Microsoft
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Diego Tamburini
Principal Industry Lead, Azure for Manufacturing at Microsoft of Microsoft
Diego Tamburini currently works as the Manufacturing Industry Strategist for Autodesk, where he focuses on identifying the trends and needs of the industry to help define the vision for Autodesk in manufacturing. He is also acts an evangelist of Autodesk’s thought leadership in the industry by delivering talks, writing, and engaging with the media and industry analysts. Diego came to Autodesk from Microsoft, where he worked in the Microsoft Dynamics development team developing the first cloud release of Dynamics ERP for Professional Services. Prior to Microsoft Dynamics, he worked with the Developer & Platform Evangelism group, helping Global ISVs in Engineering & Manufacturing align their product strategies with future Microsoft technologies. Diego also worked as Research Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Product and Systems Lifecycle Management Systems (PSLM) Center on engineering information modeling, software infrastructures for integrated collaborative engineering, and knowledge representations and interoperability technologies to enable them. He also worked closely with the OMG group developing and reviewing the SysML standard (an extension of UML targeted to Systems Engineering). Before Microsoft, he worked at SDRC (now Siemens PLM) as a Principal PLM Implementation Engineer, helping large customers such as Boeing and Goodrich Aerospace implement UGS’ PLM system (known as Metaphase at that time). Diego lives with his wife and two daughters in Snoqualmie, WA. He enjoys traveling with them to warm places and participating in long distance triathlons and marathons.
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Mark Law
Principal – MSN Social, Search and Innovation of Microsoft
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Mario Inchiosa
Principal Software Engineer of Microsoft
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