Nick Simons
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick Simons is a Principal Product Manager with over two decades of experience shaping collaborative web experiences at Microsoft, currently leading the Fluid Framework to enable low-latency, highly scalable real-time apps where AI agents and humans collaborate. He has driven major Office on the Web integrations with Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange, and led programs that opened Office to hundreds of third-party storage partners, accounting for a significant portion of web usage. Nick combines product leadership with deep operational experience—modernizing large-scale services, migrating infrastructure to Azure, and transitioning teams to continuous delivery. His background in technical documentation and automation early in his career informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to product design and developer experience. Based in Redmond, he pairs a philosophy degree with hands-on program management, and, perhaps unexpectedly, can claim the quirky legacy of having removed Clippy as part of modernizing Office experiences.
6 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA (hon.) Philosophy, BA (hon.) Philosophy at University of Ottawa
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Github Skills (9)
computational-fluid-dynamics10
fluid10
websocket10
realtime10
microsoft10
collaboration10
crdt10
fluid-framework8
backend-as-a-service1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nmsimons/shared-tree-demo
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 9 PRs, 151 pushes in 5 months
nmsimons/table-example
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 113 pushes, 31 branches in 1 month
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