Jessie Houghton
UX Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessie Houghton is a UX-focused product leader and engineer with five years of experience applying human-centered design, HCI, and research to developer tools and responsible AI. At Microsoft she has led cross-disciplinary teams to ship AI-enhanced productivity features for Visual Studio—driving Git, GitHub, and Copilot adoption through user research, iterative design, and persuasive storytelling at major conferences. Her background includes hands-on prototyping and engineering (C# and Python), instructional experience teaching data structures to large, diverse cohorts, and internships shaping model explainability and IDE productivity features. She combines product strategy with deep empathy for end users, particularly around education equity and computing education, and has a track record of converting user insights into shipped API and UX improvements. Based in Seattle and trained at the University of Michigan, she bridges design, research, and engineering to deliver practical, responsible AI and developer experiences.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science Engineering at University of MichiganGraduated Summa Cum Laude, Graduated Summa Cum Laude at Lake Zurich High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
url-shortener10
color-picker10
uploading10
ocr10
dotnet10
html2canvas10
ftp10
image-annotation10
telegraph10
offline-app10
gif10
screen-recorder10
file-sharing10
screeps10
visual-studio-extension10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Git-Learning-Series
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 34 pushes in 19 days
houghj16/ShareX
May 2023 - Apr 2024
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
Contributions:25 reviews, 58 PRs, 70 pushes in 11 months
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