Kate Smith
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKate Smith is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft focused on Azure SQL and intelligent query processing, bringing over a decade of hands-on experience in query engines and a total of 6 years in product leadership. She transitioned from nearly a decade as a software engineer into program management, uniquely blending deep technical fluency with customer-centered product design. Based in Redmond, she champions quality customer experiences for Fabric and Azure SQL innovations, translating complex query-processing research into reliable, production-grade features. Her background includes an MEng from University of Washington and a CS degree from Penn, underscoring a strong academic foundation that complements her practical systems expertise. Colleagues rely on her to bridge engineering, product, and customer needs—she’s as comfortable diving into query plans as she is defining product roadmaps.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Master of Engineering - MEng at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (19)
get-started10
microsoft10
tsql10
microsoft-sql10
azure-sql10
azure-sql-server10
sql-server10
data-tools10
sql10
mssql10
azure-synapse10
microsoft-sql-server10
azure10
ssms10
database9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/AzureSqlGettingStartedSamples
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Getting started code samples for Azure SQL
Contributions:118 commits, 2 PRs, 118 pushes in 25 days
sqlazure-sqlazure
akatesmith/sqldev
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Source code for SQL Server and Azure SQL DB developer getting started tutorials: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
sqlserversql-serverget-startedsqlus-en
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