Mckenna Barlow
Product Manager 2 (Level 62) at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMckenna Barlow is a product manager with 8 years of experience building AI-driven developer tooling at Microsoft, focused on .NET modernization, Visual Studio, and Azure migration. She led the end-to-end delivery of GitHub Copilot Upgrade for .NET—Microsoft’s first agentic, IDE-native AI upgrade flow—and steers the .NET Upgrade Assistant used by tens of thousands of developers. Mckenna blends technical fluency (origins in CS and hands-on internships) with product rigor to simplify complex modernization and migration journeys for enterprise customers. She owns core .NET project system experiences in Visual Studio, shaping how millions of developers build and run apps, while pioneering agentic upgrade experiences that minimize manual developer intervention. Based in New York, she pairs a pragmatic focus on adoption with a strong emphasis on responsible, inclusive design. A background in full-stack student projects and hackathon planning highlights her long-standing pattern of shipping usable tools and rallying cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
HBx CORE Program, HBx CORE Program at HBX | Harvard Business SchoolHigh School, High School at Castilleja SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Class of 2020, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Class of 2020 at Pomona College
English, Spanish, Hungarian
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Github Skills (35)
dotnet10
visual-studio-extension10
cps10
dotnet-core10
fsharp10
csharp10
nuget9
vsix9
linux9
asp-net9
vscode9
fsproj9
csproj9
visual-studio8
windows8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mckennabarlow/mainsite
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
schedulercourse-schedulerhousing
mckennabarlow/vscode-docs
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Public documentation for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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