Ying Z
Product Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYing Z is a product manager with nine years of cross-functional experience across Microsoft, startups, and enterprise environments, blending product strategy, software engineering, and data-driven decision making. At Microsoft she has led complex, multi-team initiatives—most recently defining first-party tenant data sources across 14 teams and building dashboards to track security bugs—while today contributing to M365 capacity planning. Her background in engineering and QA (including contributions to Azure PowerShell and Azure Stack quickstart templates) gives her pragmatic fluency with CI/CD, test automation, and cloud deployment nuances that inform product trade-offs. Ying is customer-obsessed and growth-focused, skilled at translating user research and analytics into prioritized roadmaps and measurable outcomes. She seeks mentorship-rich roles where she can tackle high-impact problems and continue developing both technical and leadership skills. An unexpected strength: she has repeatedly shrunk operational friction—from accelerating simulation tests 450x to cutting feature-support workflows from 24 minutes to 2—demonstrating a knack for scalable process improvement.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Mathematics Majors; Management Studies Concentration/Minor, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Mathematics Majors; Management Studies Concentration/Minor at St. Olaf College
Chinese, English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
arm10
powershell10
azure-powershell10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
azurestack10
testing10
performance-testing9
microsoft9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AzureStack-QuickStart-Templates
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Quick start ARM templates that deploy on Microsoft Azure Stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 12 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ying's contributions primarily focus on modifying and updating the `IoStorm` project within the context of Azure Stack Quickstart Templates. The commits involve changes to PowerShell scripts (`.psm1`) to enhance functionality. The primary focus appears to be on environment setup, deployment configuration, and test execution, especially related to storage performance and related features. This work suggests a focus on the CI/CD pipeline and testing of the project.
azure-stackmicrosoft-azurearm-templatesmicrosoftazure
Azure/azure-powershell
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits, 8 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ying contributed to the Azure PowerShell module by adding and updating cmdlet scripts, suggesting a focus on back-end development and Azure-specific functionality. The user also added and updated tests, indicating a role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the module. This involved creating new tests and modifying existing ones, suggesting an effort to improve test coverage. Finally, the user added a test for an invalid volume, demonstrating an understanding of testing edge cases.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
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