Sinem Akinci
Product Manager 2 at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolSinem Akinci is a product manager with four years of experience shaping developer experiences at Microsoft, currently focused on C++ cross-platform tooling for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. She transitioned from site reliability engineering into product, bringing hands-on operational rigor to product decisions and a strong systems mindset. Her background in industrial and operations engineering and a master's in computer science informs a data-driven, user-centered approach to complex developer workflows. Prior consulting and engineering roles at Booz Allen and internships at Uber and JetBlue give her a mix of enterprise delivery and hardware/operations exposure. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she combines design sensibilities from studies in product design and Spanish with deep technical fluency to bridge cross-functional teams. Colleagues appreciate that she rapidly learns new domains and turns developer pain points into pragmatic, measurable product improvements.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial and Operations Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of MichiganProduct Design and Spanish, Product Design and Spanish at Universidad de NavarraMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Turkish, French
Github Skills (39)
visual-studio-code10
debugging10
compilation-database10
microsoft10
ctest10
cmake10
tasks10
vscode-extension10
intellisense10
visual-studio10
vscode10
cpp10
editor9
electron9
makefile9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sinemakinci1/Cpp-Copilot-VSC-Demo
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months
sinemakinci1/cpp-docs
Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
C++ Documentation
Contributions:28 pushes in 7 months
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