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Savannah is a Senior Software Engineer working on the shared UI platform for Office. She joined Microsoft 7 years ago and worked on building features across the desktop applications of Office such as the ribbon, message bars, and popups. Two years ago she transitioned to the web team working on similar shared UI components and driving accessibility standards for Office 365. Her team is responsible for many of the core cross application features in Office 365 applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook.

Sharena is a Principal Software Engineering Manager on the PowerPoint team. Over the past 14 years she has grown teams, coached engineers, and delivered customer impact and customer centric experiences for PowerPoint and Office users. She has two children who constantly keep her on her toes and has been an advocate for women in engineering. Currently, she is responsible for delivering new core architectural improvements in PowerPoint Cloud File experiences.

I am a General Engineering Manager responsible for all build systems in Office. I started my software engineering career in Ethiopia; I moved to the United States to further my education at the University of Washington, where I earned a double major in computer and software engineering. My 15+ years of industry experience include small startups and large technology companies like Expedia, Intel, Microsoft, and Amazon. Before becoming a manager, I was an individual contributor as a principal software development engineer.

Bia is a Principal Software Engineering Manager on the Microsoft Project team. She started her Microsoft journey 15 years ago after moving from Romania as part of an acquisition. As a Software Engineer, she is super passionate about building products that customers love, and she is using every opportunity she gets to meet them and learn more about their needs. As an Engineering Manager, she is always aiming for finding the balance between helping people grow and delivering highly scalable and easy to use products. As a mom of two, she is always looking for ways to help new parents accommodate the new work environment after coming back from leave. Currently, she is responsible for delivering UX capabilities built on React and Flux for our new Project Management offering.

Steph leads an engineering systems team focused on internal developer platforms, architectures, and runtimes. Her team focuses on developer satisfaction and threading the needle between providing too-strict boundaries of the engineering system and encouraging teams to go off and build their own tooling and infra.

Steph has a passion for employee health and career growth, believing that teams will deliver great things if the employees feel loved, supported, understood, and like they truly belong. She would rather help someone find their great fit, even if it means leaving the team, over manipulating someone to stay in a role that doesn't bring them joy. This is key to building tight-knit, diverse, high-performing teams.

Outside of work, Steph has four young children who take a majority of my time. She also sits on the board for the Washington state affiliate of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing and leads the Women of Office steering committee inside of Microsoft, which strives to connect women of all disciplines and levels, encourage networking, and improve retention.