Serena Zhao
Product Manager at Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSerena Zhao is a Product Manager at Microsoft on the Azure Core team with 11 years of software engineering and product experience, blending cloud infrastructure expertise with user-focused product delivery. She transitioned from hands-on engineering roles—contributing PowerShell automation for Azure resource and access management in Azure Lighthouse samples—to product leadership, giving her a rare combination of operational depth and product strategy. Her background includes building high-impact creator tools at Facebook Gaming and shipping automation and content tooling at American Express, demonstrating a knack for turning manual processes into scalable products. Based in Atlanta, she leverages her Georgia Tech computer science foundation to bridge developer tooling, cloud operations, and customer needs. Notably, she contributes to public Azure samples that help managed service providers assess subscription ownership and permissions, reflecting a commitment to practical, reusable cloud solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (10)
azure-resource-manager10
resource-manager10
azure-powershell10
resource-management10
cloud-computing10
scripting10
devops9
powershell9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/Azure-Lighthouse-samples
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Provide samples for understanding managed service solutions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:1 review, 32 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Serena primarily contributed to scripts related to Azure resource management, focusing on checking user access and ownership within Azure subscriptions. They wrote and updated PowerShell scripts designed to assess user permissions and identify owner roles. Their work also involved optimizing these scripts and integrating them into Azure Lighthouse samples. The user demonstrated familiarity with Azure context, role assignments, and subscription management using Azure PowerShell modules.
understandinglighthouseazure
serenaz/azure-docs
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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