William Baer
Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Baer is a Senior Technical Product Manager with nearly three decades of engineering and product experience, currently leading strategy and execution for AI-powered discovery across Microsoft 365. He helped architect SharePoint Online’s evolution into a hyperscale SaaS platform serving 200M+ monthly users and now drives Copilot Search as a permission-aware, enterprise-ready AI layer. William blends deep systems architecture (storage, geo-replication, resilience) with product narrative and go-to-market leadership, turning technical capabilities into sustained customer value and adoption. He’s obsessed with the practical reasons enterprise search succeeds or fails, focusing on connectors, relevance, permissions, and real-world reliability rather than tidy demos. Based in Redmond, he thrives where engineering depth, product clarity, and customer reality converge to build platforms that scale.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, Biology at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
German, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
connections10
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sharepoint10
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sharepoint-online10
office3659
onedrive9
microsoft9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wbaer/wbaer.net
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:677 pushes in 1 year 5 months
wbaer/FileChecker
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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