Carol Smith
Senior Content Developer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarol Smith is a Senior Content Developer and seasoned technical program manager with nearly two decades of experience delivering open source programs, community-led initiatives, and large-scale network and data projects across Google, GitHub, and Microsoft. She builds pragmatic policies, tooling, and telemetry to turn customer feedback into measurable product improvements, and has led high-impact projects like ClearlyDefined and Azure credits for open source ecosystems. Comfortable coordinating culturally diverse, multilingual teams, she excels at bridging technical and nontechnical stakeholders to ensure compliance, accessibility, and inclusive experiences (she drove captioning and DEI efforts at Citus Con). A hands-on contributor to Microsoft’s open source site, she blends content, UX updates, and full-stack edits with program-level strategy. Outside work she’s an avid cyclist, jigsaw puzzler, and cinephile—interests that mirror her methodical, curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Session 49 Udon cohort, Session 49 Udon cohort at altMBABA Journalism, BA Journalism at California State University, Northridge
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
html10
content-management-system10
content-management10
jekyll10
open-source9
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/opensource.microsoft.com
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
This is the source code to the Microsoft Open Source site featuring projects, program information, and "get involved" pages. This site is published at opensource.microsoft.com and managed by the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office (OSPO).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Carol primarily contributed to updating and refining the website's content and user experience. They focused on language updates within the index.html file, along with modifying community and collaboration-related text. Additionally, the user added resources to the "Get Involved" section and created and updated pages related to Azure credits. They implemented changes to multiple files, including HTML and includes, suggesting involvement across various parts of the site.
ospoprogramsjekyllmicrosoftpublished
clearlydefined/clearlydefined
Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
Doc, wiki and organizational content for ClearlyDefined
Contributions:57 commits, 33 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 10 months
wikiorganizational
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