Issa Khoury
Principal Program Manager Lead at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIssa Khoury is a Principal Program Manager Lead at Microsoft with over 25 years of engineering and product leadership experience and a decade-plus focused on cloud and distributed services. He builds enterprise-scale Azure print enablement and previously drove mobile and productivity innovations across Windows and Office, including co-creating Continuum for Phone and shaping Windows Phone features that boosted enterprise adoption and emerging-market sales. A former software engineering lead with hands-on C/C++ systems work at Lockheed Martin and GE Healthcare, he blends deep technical craftsmanship with cross-functional program leadership. He contributes to open-source performance work—optimizing a Java Fibonacci benchmark—reflecting a continued curiosity for algorithmic efficiency. Issa pairs an engineering foundation in bioengineering (BEng/MEng) with an MBA in Technology Management, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and business strategy. Based in Redmond, he focuses on delivering customer-centric products that scale across hardware, OS, and cloud ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State UniversityMBA, Technology Management, MBA, Technology Management at University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
performance-optimization10
java10
algorithms9
biginteger9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
apache-commons6
apache-commons-lang6
sql6
event-handling6
jackson6
spring-boot6
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
drujensen/fib
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Performance Benchmark of top Github languages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Issa focused on optimizing a Java-based Fibonacci calculation within the repository. Their contributions involved implementing and refactoring a `FibOptimized.java` file. The changes include optimizing the algorithm to avoid recursion and improve performance. The user also refactored the code, changing variable scopes and improving code clarity.
pythonbenchmarkingclangjava-8benchmark
ikhoury/twentyone
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
A simple implementation of the Dutch variant of Blackjack "TwentyOne"
Contributions:1 review, 24 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 1 month
dutchblackjack
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