Elaine Ho
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Teams (Calling & Devices, Personal AI & BYOD)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElaine Ho is a senior product manager at Microsoft leading calling, devices, and Personal AI for Teams, with a decade of cross-functional experience spanning software and hardware product management. She has progressed through product roles at Microsoft and TELUS, shipping connected peripherals and smart-home reliability features and driving projects from employee trials to large-scale releases. Elaine pairs strategic product vision with hands-on DevOps experience—contributing build automation and CI/CD improvements to the Windows App SDK—to ensure robust release pipelines for complex platforms. A proven self-starter and communicator, she thrives in fast-paced environments and brings a long-standing commitment to youth leadership and education that informs her collaborative leadership style. Outside work she balances endurance running with experimental cooking, reflecting a practical curiosity that shows up in both product decisions and personal pursuits.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Steveston-London Secondary SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at UBC Sauder School of Business
English, Chinese, French, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
windows-app-sdk10
nuget10
powershell10
build-automation10
cicd10
msbuild9
yaml9
dotnet-core8
csharp8
desktop7
cpp7
version-control6
winui6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build Automation
DevOps Engineer & Build AutomationContributions:231 reviews, 14 commits, 34 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Elaine focused on automating build processes and managing the release pipeline for the Windows App SDK. They made significant changes to build scripts (PowerShell and cmd), configuration files, and CI/CD workflows. Contributions involved setting up NuGet package builds, publishing symbols, configuring artifact staging, and integrating component detection. The user also addressed dependency issues and worked on project configuration for various build targets.
desktop-appswindows-10windows-11windows-app-sdkwindows-app
kenjinote/ProjectReunion
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Project Reunion is an evolution of the Windows developer platform that will make it more compatible, agile, modern and open.
Contributions:6 commits in 2 months
dotnetuwpevolutionwindowswindows-desktop
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