Allison Ford
Product Manager 2 at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Ford is a Product Manager at Microsoft with seven years of experience building user-centered cloud and identity solutions, currently shaping the Azure Kubernetes Service experience for multi-tenancy, industry scenarios, and Windows support. She combines an MS in Information Management with hands-on IAM and UX design experience, having led SecZetta and SailPoint implementations and designed measurable UX improvements in prior consulting roles. Comfortable at the intersection of security, privacy, and developer platforms, she brings both product strategy and execution skills across enterprise SaaS and cloud-native technologies. Past roles show a pattern of translating user research into technical requirements and service offerings, and she has driven tangible outcomes such as redesigned flows and analytics dashboards that increased visibility and engagement. Based in Redmond, Allison pairs a human-centered approach with platform thinking to make complex cloud features usable and secure.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS at Bellevue CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Information Management, Master of Science - MS, Information Management at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Anthropology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Anthropology at Central Washington University
Github Skills (18)
provisioning10
microsoft-azure10
azure-aks10
azure-kubernetes-service10
cloud-init9
vhd9
agent9
k8s9
azure9
kubernetes8
microsoft7
terraform5
terraform-provider5
kubernetes-service5
bicep4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
allyford/AKS
Aug 2022 - Nov 2025
Azure Kubernetes Service
Contributions:52 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 3 months
kubernetes-serviceazure-kubernetesazure-kubernetes-servicekubernetesazure
allyford/azure-docs
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
openxmlmicrosoft-azureazuremicrosoftwebview2
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