Cindy Lay
Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCindy Lay is a product manager at Microsoft with 8 years of software and leadership experience, currently driving OneDrive and SharePoint platform initiatives from Seattle. She blends hands-on engineering roots—software internships and ML research that produced peer-reviewed papers—with product leadership honed through campus-wide elected roles managing crisis-era academic operations. Her background spans full-stack development, computer vision work on core AI teams, and research into consensus and intention perception, giving her a rare mix of technical depth and user-centered product sense. Comfortable translating research insights into product decisions, she excels at coordinating cross-functional teams to ship scale-ready features in complex, distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
St. Andrew's SchoolBachelor's of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor's of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Claremont McKenna College
Github Skills (16)
powershell10
connections10
sharepoint-online10
spfx10
sharepoint10
office36510
ontology-mapping5
owl4
prefix3
ontology3
semantics3
ontologies3
data-cleaning2
rdf2
data-mapper1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cindylay/sp-dev-docs
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Updates to documentation
Contributions:10 reviews, 2 PRs, 146 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cindylay/OfficeDocs-SharePoint-PowerShell
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Set-SPOContainer
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
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