Katie Orenstein
Principal Design Manager, Microsoft Security
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKatie Orenstein is a Principal Design Manager at Microsoft Security with over 14 years of experience shaping user-centered product design across enterprise and consumer software. She leads cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive experiences, design systems, and scalable UX processes that bridge product, engineering, and research. At Microsoft, she drove a six-month accessibility initiative ensuring WCAG 2.1 compliance across roughly 20 offerings and guided a seven-person design team on component and pattern development. Previously, she built Persefoni’s UX function and design system, and led IBM Security design efforts—covering identity, data compliance, cloud security, and AI—from discovery through delivery. Based in Austin, Texas, she brings a rare blend of design leadership, front-end sensibilities, and strong research practices, woven from a career that spans CBS digital media and freelance creative work; and she defines herself as a designer who codes, writes, teaches, and leads with curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Art History, Italian, Bachelor's degree, Art History, Italian at University of California, Los Angeles
ItalianGithub contributions (3)
mauzyprime/genetic_painting
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
geneticmachine-learninggenetic-algorithmpaintingsartificial-intelligence
mauzyprime/astro-sandbox
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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