Sonja Saltzman
Principal PM, Cloud & AI at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSonja Saltzman is a Principal Product Manager focused on Cloud & AI at Microsoft with over a decade of experience leading large, matrixed localization and content-delivery programs for cloud and enterprise products. She has scaled global teams and vendor partnerships, managed budgets north of $18M, and shipped localization pipelines and tools that enabled weekly publishing and sim-shipping for Azure and other major product lines. Sonja’s career blends deep process and tooling expertise—driving automation that cut UE build breaks by ~80% and halved localization check-in time—with strategic product ownership across localization workflow platforms. She repeatedly orchestrated successful outsourced models and migrations, shifting operational work to suppliers while preserving quality and compliance in highly regulated terminology areas. Based in Bellevue, WA, she’s known for turning complex international requirements into repeatable, automated solutions that keep headcount flat while increasing output. An operator who bridges product, engineering, and vendor ecosystems, she brings rare institutional knowledge of both localization and cloud content at scale.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Management, Bachelor of Science, Management at University of PhoenixAssociate of Science, Business, Associate of Science, Business at Bellevue Community College
german (native), latin
Github Skills (62)
intune10
dotnet10
dotnet-core10
fsharp10
csharp10
microsoft9
openxml9
documentation-generator9
azure9
powershell9
rms8
microsoft-azure8
ata8
external7
french7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/syncingAutomationTest
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
testingsyncingautomation
OpenLocalizationOrg/PowerShell-Docs
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:48 pushes in 1 year 1 month
powershelldscpowershell-dscsources
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