Alishah Novin
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlishah Novin is a senior product leader and former engineer with 18+ years of technical and leadership experience and over a decade focused on product management and org-scale delivery. Currently a Senior Product Manager Lead at Microsoft, she drives new market initiatives, coordinates cross-org features across multiple product and engineering teams, and leads remote-first practices that improve collaboration across time zones. Previously she scaled engineering organizations and revenue-generating products as a Director of Engineering—implementing Agile and DevOps transformations that cut cycle times by 80%, improved uptime to 99.9%, and secured PCI compliance for payments. Comfortable switching between hands-on technical work and strategic product ownership, she has built award-winning SaaS and RPA products, hired and grown large distributed teams, and organized technical leadership forums connecting 15+ strategic accounts. With a dual background in physics and philosophy from the University of Toronto, she brings analytical rigor and clear decision frameworks to complex product and operational challenges. An often-overlooked strength is her track record of turning early-stage experiments into high-transaction products and repeatable delivery models at scale.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at University of Toronto
French
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Github Skills (26)
command-line-interface10
dotnet10
swagger10
azure-cli10
rest10
rest-api10
azure10
openapi10
azure-sdk9
microsoft9
microsoft-azure9
visual-studio9
sdk9
cli9
csharp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
novinc/Docker.DotNet
May 2019 - Oct 2020
:whale: .NET (C#) Client Library for Docker API
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
apidotnetclient-librarydockercsharp
novinc/TVCompanion
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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