Justine Coates
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJustine Coates is a Principal Program Manager with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing, shipping and supporting Windows-based embedded and IoT devices, currently leading technical and developer evangelism for Microsoft Maps and geospatial products. She blends deep subject-matter expertise in Windows Embedded/IoT and automotive platforms with program management, pre/post-sales engagement and customer advocacy to turn device challenges into maintainable, scalable solutions. Known internally as a go-to “IoTGirl,” she pairs an engineer’s attention to quality and testability with a communicator’s ability to create compelling collateral, run global events, and coach developer communities. Her work includes two patents aimed at simplifying daily tasks, reflecting a pragmatic focus on user-centered automation across home and workplace scenarios. Based in Vancouver with a Canadian passport, she’s an early adopter who experiments with new products and leverages maker culture to drive creative uses of existing technology.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Software Engineering, B.Sc, Software Engineering at University of VictoriaIB & Dogwood Diplomas, IB & Dogwood Diplomas at Semiahmoo Senior Secondary
Github Skills (85)
rest-services10
bing10
azure-maps10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
voiceover10
location10
api10
sdk10
iot-core10
bing-maps10
azure-bot-service10
windows9
bing-api9
bots9
vsix9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
IoTGirl/content
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
technologieswindowsmicrosoft-open-technologiesmicrosoftiot
IoTGirl/azure-docs
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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