Fernanda Vela
Product Manager 2 - CXE Microsoft Defender For Cloud
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFernanda Vela is a Product Manager at Microsoft specializing in Microsoft Defender for Cloud with 10 years of experience bridging cloud engineering, security, and customer success. She blends a strong technical foundation (M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science) with hands-on product design—ideating, prototyping and shipping Defender for Storage features while owning roadmap and customer-driven prioritization. Known for daily customer engagement with CTOs/CISOs and building adoption assets (blogs, docs, automations, webinars), she turns operational feedback into actionable product improvements. Her background spans roles from Cloud Solutions Architect and Premier Field Engineer to data-driven fraud detection, giving her a rare combination of field experience, data literacy, and security product leadership. Based in Seattle, she quietly amplifies impact by creating training and automation that accelerate enterprise deployments and reduce operational friction.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering/Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering/Computer Science at Tecnológico de MonterreyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
powershell10
azure10
microsoft10
monitor9
azure-monitor9
microsoft-azure8
azure-monitor-workbooks5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
velahuer/Application-Insights-Workbooks
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Templates for Azure Monitor Workbooks
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 months
azure-monitormonitorazureazure-monitor-workbooksworkbooks
mariana-vc/MiDientito
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:8 pushes in 27 days
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