Luciana Abud
Principal Technical PM Manager at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolLuciana Abud is a Principal Technical PM Manager at Microsoft with 7+ years designing and scaling developer tools and AI-powered developer experiences. She led product strategy for the Python experience in VS Code—contributing code, telemetry, and UX changes to the widely used microsoft/vscode-python extension—and now drives AI model initiatives for GitHub Copilot used by millions. Comfortable at the intersection of research, engineering, and product, she uses data, experiments, and user research to move features from prototype to production. Her background includes a master's in computer science focused on data mining, which informs a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to product decisions. Based in Vancouver, she combines hands-on engineering contributions with cross-functional leadership to improve developer productivity.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado, Ciência da Computação, Mestrado, Ciência da Computação at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
debugging10
debug10
visual-studio-code-extension10
python10
testing10
telemetry10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
refactoring8
editor8
editors8
jupyter7
localization7
numpy6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-python
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Python extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:141 reviews, 3 commits, 207 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Luciana primarily contributed to the Python extension for Visual Studio Code, focusing on bug fixes, feature enhancements, and code refactoring. Their work included fixing language server download issues, modifying debug adapter experiments, and updating various UI elements and localization strings. They also implemented a "Create New Python File" command and incorporated telemetry for tracking feature usage, while ensuring existing features and telemetry data were updated to use more appropriate session identifiers.
pythonvisual-studio-codepython-extensionvscodevscode-extension
DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
This extension is now maintained in the Microsoft fork.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luciana primarily contributed to the Python VS Code extension, focusing on a variety of features. They worked on debugging adapter experiments, altering experiment group assignments, and modifying code related to language server downloads and localization. They also made changes to improve the user experience, such as updating the mailing list form and modifying the "browse" to "find" functionality. Furthermore, they added telemetry and commands for creating new python files.
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