Summary
Sam Kabue is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11+ years of experience designing, testing, and shipping large-scale SharePoint and OneDrive systems and the modern Microsoft 365 SharePoint admin center. He brings a strong data-science mindset to engineering problems, pairing C#, PowerShell, TypeScript, Python and R expertise with production-focused testing and rapid mitigation of customer-impacting issues. His work spans the full product lifecycle—from data-driven feature decisions and proof-of-concept prototyping to automated upgrade/patching infrastructure and on-call diagnostic tooling—and includes patents pending for reliability features. Known for independently driving complex fixes and for building test and automation suites that enabled mass upgrades across datacenters, he balances deep technical breadth (including past C/C++ and Java experience) with clear cross-team communication.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information and Data Science, Master’s Degree Information and Data Science at UC Berkeley School of Information
AB Computer Science, AB Computer Science at Harvard University
KCSE O-Level, KCSE O-Level at Alliance High School