Abbie Holland
Principal Project Manager at Microsoft
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAbbie Holland is a Principal Project Manager with nine years’ experience delivering enterprise and secure government software, now leading projects at Microsoft from Reading, UK. She combines hands-on full-stack development experience—contributing UI and functionality fixes to the high-profile Azure Data Studio project—with a track record of building empowered agile delivery teams across public sector programmes. Her background spans programme and delivery leadership at Capita and Tisski, plus earlier technical SAP and search engineering roles, enabling her to bridge technical depth and stakeholder-facing programme management. Known for fostering strong customer relationships, she has repeatedly delivered complex case management and integration-heavy systems while coaching teams to own outcomes. An uncommon strength is her comfort switching between code-level fixes and executive decision-making, helping accelerate delivery without losing technical rigor.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of BristolThe English International CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Systems Design, Bachelor of Science - BS Systems Design at Teesside University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
azure-data-studio10
sql-server10
typescript10
typescripts10
sql10
typescript-types10
microsoft-azure9
electron9
azure9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/azuredatastudio
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Azure Data Studio is a data management and development tool with connectivity to popular cloud and on-premises databases. Azure Data Studio supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, with immediate capability to connect to Azure SQL and SQL Server. Browse the extension library for more database support options including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 188 PRs, 261 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Abbie primarily contributed to the Azure Data Studio project by fixing bugs and implementing features. Their work involved resolving an issue related to loading unsaved SQL files in the editor and implementing enhancements for theming the manage account status bar icon. Furthermore, they added saved connections to the connection dialog, improving user experience. This work indicates a focus on both UI and underlying functionality, aligning with a full-stack developer role.
sqlserverazure-sql-databasemicrosoftmanagement-tooldata-management
microsoft/sqltoolsservice
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
SQL Tools API service that provides SQL Server data management capabilities.
Contributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 months
data-serverapidata-managementsql-serversqlserver
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