Risa Naka
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRisa Naka is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft with 14 years of experience delivering customer-facing features and company-wide, highly scalable services across Office Experiences, Dynamics 365, and Accessibility teams. She combines a strong technical foundation in Java, Python, JavaScript and cloud tooling with program leadership that spans cross-platform mobile and large-scale cloud projects. At Cornell she led an award-winning HCI research and Android development group, demonstrating early strengths in people management, agile process tailoring, and complex integration work. Based in Redmond, she is comfortable bridging product, engineering, and design to ship polished experiences at enterprise scale. A detail that sets her apart is hands-on domain depth from academic HCI research through production cloud services, enabling informed decisions that balance usability and operational scale.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Science Interdisciplinary Studies at College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (7)
accessibility10
accessibility-insights10
axe10
wcag10
typescript9
windows8
microsoft7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
risanaka/project.io
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:15 PRs, 49 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
risanaka/risanaka.github.io
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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