Summary
Scott Krieder is a Principal Product Manager leading Xbox Cloud Gaming at Microsoft with 13 years of experience building large-scale, consumer-facing software across gaming, Office for the web, and Microsoft News. He blends deep technical roots—ABD doctoral work in computer science and hands-on research in HPC, distributed systems, and GPGPU—with product leadership to ship performant, scalable cloud services. Scott’s background includes early engineering roles from Drupal development to enterprise IT and a long Microsoft tenure progressing from student partner and intern to principal product management. He holds advanced business degrees (MBA and ongoing MS/Strategic Management at Kelley) that complement his technical expertise and inform cross-functional strategy. Known for tackling infrastructure and UX simultaneously, he focuses on exceeding user expectations while optimizing backend systems for scale.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago
Master of Science - MS, Strategic Management, Master of Science - MS, Strategic Management at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
All but dissertation (ABD) PhD Candidate, Computer Science, All but dissertation (ABD) PhD Candidate, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Creighton University