Ryan King
Senior Program Manager - Marketing Engineering at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan King is a Senior Program Manager with 10+ years at Microsoft driving large-scale marketing engineering, developer relations, and Windows personalization initiatives that span 100+ international markets. He combines deep expertise in internationalization, localization, and agile product delivery with a proven ability to cut turnaround times (notably a 90% localization reduction) by blending machine translation, microservices, and UX improvements. Known for aligning cross-functional teams and partners, he has led service-oriented platform and API designs that scaled support to 100+ languages and influenced industry standards like XLIFF. Based in Redmond, he pairs a BA in Linguistics with a longtime focus on developer tooling and cloud-based SaaS translation systems, bringing a rare mix of language-first thinking and engineering program leadership. An award-winning collaborator and mentor, he consistently drives measurable CSAT, productivity, and cost improvements across complex, global programs.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Linguistics, minor in Computers and Language, BA, Linguistics, minor in Computers and Language at Brigham Young University
German, Portuguese, Welsh
Github Skills (27)
microsoft-sql10
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microsoft9
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localize9
data-tools9
ssms9
microsoft-sql-server9
oasis8
object-model8
xliff6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/memdocs.ko-kr
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:638 pushes in 7 months
MicrosoftDocs/CE1-Test-pr.ja-JP
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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