Amal Khalaf
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmal Khalaf is a Principal Software Engineer in Redmond with nearly a decade of experience building high-scale backend and frontend services for Azure and private cloud. Comfortable across React, TypeScript, C#, and PowerShell, she has led cross-team efforts at Microsoft to deliver customer-critical features—most recently driving Copilot Studio Agents and prior work that shipped Sales Copilot integrations and Viva Sales in Teams. She combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, having managed small engineering teams to meet tight, high-stakes deadlines and delivered measurable adoption in short timeframes. Her background spans cloud compliance, DevOps/IT Ops, and language-understanding portals (luis.ai), reflecting both operational rigor and product-focused UX work. Notably, she has architected backend reliability features (DSC SQL pull server, log rotation, timer API) that solved enterprise needs and improved platform maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Ain Shams UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
arabic - fluent, german - beginner, french - beginner, English
Github Skills (38)
adaptive-cards10
dsc10
powershell-dsc10
chat10
conversational-ui10
conversational-ai10
azure-bot-service10
bot-framework10
chatbot10
azure9
arm9
powershell9
docker8
operating-system8
react8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
amal-khalaf/BotFramework-WebChat
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
A highly-customizable web-based client for Azure Bot Services.
Contributions:43 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
botazure-bothighly-customizableweb-basedcustomizable
amal-khalaf/hello-dsc
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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