Ahmed Sabbour is a Principal Product Manager Lead at Microsoft with 11 years of hands-on experience and a non-traditional 15+-year career arc spanning product marketing, technical sales, cloud architecture, evangelism, and software engineering. He leads the AKS AI-Infra and Platform team, shaping features like managed GPUs, node auto-provisioning, KAITO, and KEDA to make AKS a first-class platform for AI workloads and agent-based apps. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, Ahmed contributes to backend and full-stack open-source demos—implementing MongoDB-integrated APIs, service-bus order processing, and Vue-based front ends for Microsoft Learn workshops. His background driving field enablement and multimillion-dollar pipelines across MEA gives him a rare blend of customer-facing sales impact and deep technical product craft. Known for turning complex cloud-native requirements into delightful developer experiences, he combines startup grit (co‑founder of a web studio) with enterprise-scale product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering Technology, M.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering Technology at The German University in Cairo
API with mongodb for end-to-end developer experience demo
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:46 commits, 16 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily focused on developing the backend API for the rating-api project. Their contributions involved creating and modifying routes for interacting with a MongoDB database, including features to retrieve and store data related to items and ratings. The user also implemented data autoloading and resolved bugs, showcasing a focus on database integration and API functionality. They also addressed error handling and made adjustments to the item model.
Contributions:70 commits, 10 PRs, 87 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the backend of the Capture Order API, focusing on integrating with MongoDB and Service Bus for order processing. Their work involved importing code, refactoring the existing application to use a service bus, and updating the codebase to interact with the new messaging system. Key modifications were made to the `models/order.go` file, indicating efforts to manage order data and integrate with the system's core components.
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Ahmed Sabbour - Principal Product Manager Lead at Microsoft