Summer Smith
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSummer Smith is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft with nine years of experience bridging software engineering and product leadership in the San Francisco Bay Area. A Duke graduate with degrees in Computer Science and Public Policy plus an entrepreneurship certificate, she brings technical depth and a policy-minded perspective to product strategy. Her career trajectory—from software engineer roles and internships to program and senior product management—reflects strong hands-on engineering credibility and a knack for shipping complex features at scale. Summers’s background includes early startup and venture exposure as a Venture Fellow, giving her an appetite for product-market fit and founder-level thinking. She’s comfortable translating technical constraints into clear roadmaps and stakeholder-aligned outcomes across large orgs. Colleagues would describe her as a pragmatic connector who pairs code-level fluency with strategic product judgment.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Public Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Public Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate at Duke UniversityInnovation and Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Duke in Silicon ValleySaratoga High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
checkout10
kubernetes-service10
azure-iot-edge10
azure-kubernetes-service10
engage10
hci10
scenarios9
azure8
opc8
monitor8
edge-computing7
kubernetes7
linux7
iaas7
iot6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SummerSmith/aks-engine-azurestack
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
AKS Engine: Units of Kubernetes on Azure Stack Hub!
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
azure-stackaks-engineunitskubernetesazure
SummerSmith/cordapp-template-kotlin
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
A Kotlin CorDapp Template. Extend it via the Hello, World tutorial: https://docs.corda.net/hello-world-introduction.html
Contributions:42 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
templatecordappkotlincordakotlin-library
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