The people who make Microsoft, Microsoft.
Gratitude to the technical fellows, engineers, and leaders who built the tools a generation ships software with, and who are carrying Microsoft into the agentic era. Cited from public work.
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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, architect of its cloud and AI transformation
Microsoft
Since 2014 he has reoriented Microsoft around a growth mindset, open source, and the cloud, turning Azure and AI into a platform millions of developers build on.
Kevin Scott
CTO and EVP of AI at Microsoft, shaping its technical and AI strategy
Microsoft
He guides Microsoft's technical vision and its AI platform work, and writes and podcasts thoughtfully about making AI serve everyone, not just the privileged few.
Mustafa Suleyman
EVP and CEO of Microsoft AI, leading the consumer AI and Copilot effort
Microsoft
He leads Microsoft AI and its push toward in-house frontier models, bringing decades of AI product experience to the Copilot consumer experience.
Brad Smith
Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, its voice on technology and society
Microsoft
As Vice Chair and President he represents Microsoft on the hardest questions where technology meets society, from cybersecurity and privacy to AI governance and human rights.
Amy Hood
EVP and CFO of Microsoft, first woman to hold the role
Microsoft
As CFO since 2013 she has steered the finance organization through the cloud era and landmark deals including LinkedIn, GitHub, and Activision Blizzard.
Judson Althoff
EVP and CEO of Microsoft Commercial Business
Microsoft
He leads the commercial business that brings Microsoft's cloud and AI to customers across more than 120 markets, focused relentlessly on real customer outcomes.
Charlie Bell
Microsoft engineer who built its Security organization and Secure Future Initiative
Microsoft
He built and led Microsoft Security and launched the Secure Future Initiative, one of the largest cybersecurity engineering efforts ever, to make the whole ecosystem safer.
Jay Parikh
EVP of Microsoft CoreAI, Platform and Tools
Microsoft
He leads CoreAI, uniting Microsoft's developer division and AI platform teams to build the end-to-end AI stack that developers and businesses use to create AI apps.
Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft, technologist and philanthropist
Microsoft (co-founder)
He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with a vision of a computer on every desk, building the company and industry that so much modern software still stands on.
Peter Lee
President of Microsoft Research, computer scientist and author
Microsoft Research
He leads Microsoft Research and champions AI for the physical, biological, and medical sciences, thoughtfully exploring what AI means for medicine and discovery.
Eric Horvitz
Microsoft's first Chief Scientific Officer and Technical Fellow
Microsoft
As Chief Scientific Officer he works at the intersection of science, technology, and society, and founded Microsoft's Aether committee on AI ethics and the Stanford One Hundred Year Study on AI.
Doug Burger
Microsoft Technical Fellow behind Project Catapult and Brainwave
Microsoft Research
His teams pioneered Project Catapult and Brainwave, so that today every server in Microsoft's cloud carries a hardware platform his group designed for AI and networking at scale.
Mark Russinovich
CTO of Microsoft Azure, Technical Fellow, and creator of Sysinternals
Microsoft
He created the beloved Sysinternals tools that generations of Windows engineers rely on, and as Azure CTO he shapes the reliability and security of Microsoft's cloud.
Dave Cutler
Senior Technical Fellow and lead architect of Windows NT
Microsoft
He led the creation of Windows NT, the foundation under every major version of Windows since 1993, and kept building, from the Azure host OS to the Xbox One hypervisor.
Anders Hejlsberg
Microsoft Technical Fellow, creator of C# and lead architect of TypeScript
Microsoft
He designed C# and leads TypeScript, giving millions of developers languages and tools that make everyday programming safer and more joyful.
Scott Guthrie
EVP of the Microsoft Cloud and AI group, co-creator of ASP.NET
Microsoft
He prototyped ASP.NET over a Christmas break and now leads the teams behind Azure, .NET, Visual Studio, VS Code, and GitHub, always in his signature red shirt.
Scott Hanselman
Microsoft VP, developer advocate, teacher, and podcaster
Microsoft
He has taught and welcomed developers for decades through his blog and podcasts, and helped lead the charge to open-source .NET into a truly community-driven platform.
David Fowler
Distinguished Engineer on .NET, creator of SignalR
Microsoft
He co-created NuGet, SignalR, and ASP.NET Core and works in the open every day, generously helping developers build faster, real-time, cloud-native apps.
Mads Torgersen
Principal Architect and lead designer of the C# language
Microsoft
He runs the C# language design process fully in the open on GitHub, patiently shepherding community ideas all the way into a language millions depend on.
Don Syme
Creator of F# and Principal Researcher at GitHub Next
GitHub (Microsoft) / Microsoft Research
He designed and built F# and co-created .NET generics and language-integrated async, ideas that rippled out into C#, Python, TypeScript, and beyond.
Erich Gamma
Microsoft Distinguished Engineer who leads Visual Studio Code
Microsoft
A Gang of Four Design Patterns author and JUnit co-creator, he leads the Zurich lab that gave the world Visual Studio Code, built in the open and loved by developers everywhere.
Raymond Chen
Longtime Windows engineer and author of The Old New Thing
Microsoft
For over thirty years he has kept Windows compatible and, through The Old New Thing, generously explained its history and quirks with rare insight and humor.
Guido van Rossum
Creator of Python, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
Microsoft
The creator of Python brought his craft to Microsoft to help make CPython dramatically faster, a gift to the entire Python community.
Julia Liuson
President of Microsoft's Developer Division for many years
Microsoft
Over 34 years she rose from developer to lead the Developer Division behind Visual Studio, VS Code, and .NET, tools that shape how the world writes software.
Amanda Silver
CVP and Head of Product for Microsoft's developer tools
Microsoft
She has helped steer Microsoft's embrace of open source across TypeScript, VS Code, and GitHub, and guided the Copilot developer experience from completions to coding agents.
Ryan Cavanaugh
Engineering lead for the TypeScript language at Microsoft
Microsoft
He has led the TypeScript team since before its first release, engaging tirelessly with the community on GitHub to make typed JavaScript a joy to use at scale.
Pavan Davuluri
EVP of Windows and Devices at Microsoft
Microsoft
A 23-year Microsoft veteran, he leads Windows and Surface and their future at the intersection of AI, cloud, and silicon that people use every day.
Daniel Rosenwasser
Principal Product Manager of TypeScript at Microsoft
Microsoft
He shepherds TypeScript releases and represents its community at TC39, and helped drive the native port that makes the compiler dramatically faster for everyone.
Miguel de Icaza
Creator of Mono and Xamarin, foundations of cross-platform .NET
Xamarin, acquired by Microsoft (there 2016 to 2022)
His Mono and Xamarin work, brought into Microsoft in 2016, became the foundation for running .NET everywhere, from mobile to WebAssembly.
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