Emily Purewal
Principal Design Manager at Microsoft
United States
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Top SchoolEmily Purewal is a Principal Design Manager at Microsoft with 13 years of experience blending UX design, product strategy, and team leadership to create intuitive, human-centered experiences. She progressed through successive design roles at Microsoft since 2016 after earlier hands-on work as a UX designer/developer and freelance web designer, giving her both strategic and implementation fluency. Emily’s background in New Media/Interactive Design and unconventional studies in holistic health and martial arts inform a systems-level, empathetic approach to design and team wellbeing. She excels at translating visionary goals into measurable product outcomes and mentoring designers to ship thoughtful, inclusive interfaces at scale. Unexpectedly, her cross-disciplinary training suggests she brings a tactile sense of care and resilience to complex product challenges.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Martial arts, Martial arts at Tao InstituteHerbal medicine Nutrition Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, Herbal medicine Nutrition Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine at Appalachian School of Holistic HerbalismBA New Media/Interactive Design, BA New Media/Interactive Design at University of North Carolina AshevilleLMBT Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage, LMBT Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage at Asheville School of Massage and Yoga
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ntbnnt/openSpectra
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:79 commits in 2 months
ekwatson/learningwebappdev.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 6 months
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