Pamela Cortez
Washington State Institute For A Democratic Future (WAIDF) Fellow And Board Member
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPamela Cortez is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO with 13 years of experience building and teaching products that span AI (edge and cloud), IoT, embedded hardware, security, and open source. She advises incubation teams on technical strategy and go-to-market execution, pairing hands-on product and developer advocacy with measurable MVP metrics and market testing. Previously she led Azure IoT developer programs and global training initiatives, scaled partner enablement, and created high-impact technical content like the IoT Deep Dive webinar series. A former SparkFun developer and longtime “robot whisper,” she blends blue-collar shop-floor experience with white-collar engineering and product leadership, and teaches physical computing across age groups. Outside work she channels curiosity into collecting hobbies and amateur drumming, and she serves as a WAIDF fellow and board member focused on civic leadership and tech-policy intersections.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Media, Digital Media at Full Sail University
Github Skills (30)
microsoft10
architecture10
duplication10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
azure-rtos9
threadx9
documentation9
embedded8
operating-system8
iot8
sparkfun8
microcontroller7
mcu7
breakout7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AltaOhms/e-robotocat
Dec 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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