Nicole Haugen
Software Engineer, Dev Div Customer And Partner Engagement at Microsoft
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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RockstarNicole Haugen is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience at Microsoft, currently focused on customer and partner engagement within the Developer Division. She blends cloud and automation expertise—authoring PowerShell modules and scripts to provision Azure DevTest Labs, enable GPU-enabled VMs, and containerize big-data and remote-desktop environments—with hands-on mobile and IoT work from contributions to the Azure MyDriving Xamarin sample. Based in Fargo, North Dakota, Nicole pairs deep platform knowledge with pragmatic engineering, shipping reliable tooling that helps teams automate environment setup and diagnostics. Notably, her background spans both test leadership and production engineering, giving her a rare perspective on quality, automation, and developer experience across the software lifecycle.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (34)
docker10
mobile-development10
cloud-computing10
net10
uwp10
dotnet10
windows-phone10
microsoft-azure10
app-dev10
dockers10
mobile-application10
asp-net10
automation10
xamarin-forms10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/MyDriving
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Building IoT or Mobile solutions are fun and exciting. This year for Build, we wanted to show the amazing scenarios that can come together when these two are combined. So, we went and developed a sample application. MyDriving uses a wide range of Azure services to process and analyze car telemetry data for both real-time insights and long-term patterns and trends. The following features are supported in the current version of the mobile app.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Mobile Developer
Full-stack Mobile DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily contributed to the development of the MyDriving mobile application, focusing on features and implementation related to a Windows Phone platform. Contributions include the initial setup of the Xamarin.Forms project and the addition of features such as a main menu screen, a hamburger menu, and a temporary skip authorization button. The user also added IOT Hub client SDK integration and basic current trip screen functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed compile and build errors.
azure-servicesiotmobilemobile-applicationtelemetry
Azure/azure-devtestlab
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Azure DevTestLab artifacts, scripts and samples
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer & Automation Engineer
Cloud Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 28 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily contributed to the repository by implementing scripts and modules related to Azure infrastructure and automation. They developed PowerShell scripts for setting up and managing environments within Azure DevTest Labs, including the creation of custom roles, image imports, and the configuration of virtual machines, as well as implementing the enabling of the GPU driver parameter. These contributions focused on automating lab creation, environment setup, and the integration of GPU-enabled VMs. Further contributions included the setup of Docker containers for Big Data analytics, Fedora and X2Go Remote Desktop environments.
azure
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