René Deanda is a product manager with over a decade of experience building user-focused products from indie startups to enterprise platforms, currently shaping employee experiences at Microsoft in Redmond. He has led cross-organizational initiatives like a feedback SDK for Microsoft Viva that improved engagement and promoted a culture of listening, and he champions developer experience through tooling, automation, and reusable components. As a founder of Descartes Creations and an early product developer at Edmodo, he blends startup agility with big-tech rigor to translate strategic roadmaps into practical, reusable solutions. René pairs a technical BSE and an MBA with hands-on engineering rotations early in his career, giving him a rare mix of technical empathy and business-savvy product leadership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business
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