Alex Kafer
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Kafer is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of hands-on software and product experience, combining full-stack web development, mobile apps, and cloud backends. He brings deep technical fluency—Node.js, React, Angular, AWS, Firebase—and a history of shipping production features from internship prototypes to large-scale deployments like Project xCloud. His background includes AI/ML work at NASA where he built an NLP requirement-tailoring tool and robotic prototypes, reflecting a knack for applied research and systems thinking. Alex also has strong automation and testing chops from Polaris, where he dramatically expanded Selenium coverage and integrated DevOps pipelines. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams or bootstrapping projects solo, he blends product design sensibility with engineering rigor. Based in Seattle and always learning, he has an unusual early foundation in robotics and PID control that informs his practical approach to complex technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree B.S. Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree B.S. Computer Science at University of Minnesota
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Github Skills (30)
recycle9
font-awesome8
bootstrap-theme8
css8
bootstrap8
robot7
html7
swift6
firebase6
xcode6
tvos6
htaccess6
http6
dynamic6
firebase-realtime-database6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexkafer/alexkafer-web
Mar 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
alexkafer/lightshow-games-client
Nov 2019 - Jan 2026
Light Show Games Client
Contributions:35 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
steamlaunchergameslight
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