Craig Loewen
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Loewen is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft with a decade of experience building developer tools, currently leading the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) program used by over 3 million developers and IT professionals. He combines a strong engineering background in mechatronics and hands-on product work to drive technical roadmaps, prioritize features, and deliver measurable outcomes—doubling monthly active devices and improving retention by 30%. Craig has overseen major architecture changes that added full Linux system call compatibility and 20x+ file performance gains, and he shipped user-facing features like Linux GUI app support and a Microsoft-distributed Linux kernel. He routinely integrates voice-of-customer into strategy via GitHub, Twitter, interviews, and user studies, while amplifying adoption through blog posts, tutorials, and conference talks that have reached over a million views. Based in New York, he blends product rigor with developer empathy and a practical engineering mindset rooted in early hardware and quality engineering roles.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Waterloo
Korean, German, French, English
Github Skills (6)
react5
nodejs5
typescript4
vim4
python2
computer-vision1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
craigloewen-msft/craigloewen-msft.github.io
Apr 2017 - Jan 2024
The code for my Personal Website
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 10 months
javascript
craigaloewen/FlappyBirdAI
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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