Augustin Popa
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAugustin Popa is a Senior Product Manager on the Visual Studio C++ team at Microsoft with nine years of experience building developer productivity tools, from code editing and refactoring to onboarding and getting-started flows. He drives product decisions for vcpkg and the broader C++ experience, blending technical fluency with user-centered design to reduce friction for both expert and new users. His background spans hands-on software development and community-driven projects—past roles include building internal tooling at BlackBerry, a MongoDB-backed CRM module at Citi, and co-developing a popular community patch and moderation program for a large gaming site. Based in Seattle, he combines an uncommon mix of product strategy, engineering empathy, and experience running Agile cycles for volunteer-driven projects, which helps him translate developer pain points into practical, shipped solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityBachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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mongodb
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database-design
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nosql
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Github Skills (40)
setuptools10
windows10
linux10
cross-platform10
cmake10
visual-studio10
vcpkg10
macos10
c-library10
package-manager10
cpp10
swig10
nosql9
visual-studio-extension9
database-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AugP/vcpkg-docs
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year
AugP/Cataclysm-DDA
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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