Olga Arkhipova is a seasoned software engineer with over 25 years of experience and nine years in senior leadership at Microsoft, where she led architecture and delivery for Version Control, project, and build systems. Trained at the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, she brings deep C++ and C# expertise combined with a strong background in software architecture and IDE engineering. Her career spans hands-on UI and tools development to principal-level design, including early work on Windows UI for raster/vector editing and biomechanics research-based modeling. Known for quietly stabilizing complex developer tooling, she excels at translating intricate build and project requirements into reliable, maintainable systems. Now retired and based in Woodinville, Washington, she retains a practitioner’s mindset and institutional knowledge of large-scale developer platforms.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)
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