Mandy Whaley

About Mandy Whaley

Currently leading developer tools for Azure and Microsoft AI Foundry, including Azure MCP Server, Azure Developer CLI, Azure dev tools for VS Code, and the AI Toolkit for VS CodePreviously spearheaded the Cisco DevNet developer community and certification programs, driving adoption of Cisco APIs and platforms through developer advocacy, content creation, and hands-on labs.I love building and creating products related to developer experience, AI applications, platform engineering, and APIs and SDKs. During my career, I have worked in many roles in product, engineering and developer advocacy. I have experience leading large teams and scaling up teams and products from zero to success.

Experience

1. Partner Director of Product, Azure and Ai Dev Tools

   Microsoft

   Apr 2021 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Leading the Dev Tools experience for Azure and Microsoft AI Foundry. Our team builds the Azure MCP Server and agent skills to help developers using GitHub Copilot and Azure, the Azure SDK Libraries in 6 languages and the AI Toolkit for VS Code-the Azure MCP Server & agent skills-the Azure VS Code Toolkit-the AI Toolkit for VS Code-the Azure Developer CLI (azd)-the Azure SDK Libraries-App modernization tools for migrating and modernizing apps using GitHub Copilot

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  B.S., Chemical engineering

  1992 — 1996

• The University of Texas at Austin

  M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1997 — 2000

Skills

• Node.js
• Subversion
• Opensocial
• Mysql
• Apache
• Visual Basic
• Integration
• Xml
• Rest
• Php
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Jsp
• Html
• Struts
• Web Services
• Saas
• Javascript
• Asp.net Mvc
• Asp
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• C#
• Sql
• Visio
• Asp.net
• User Interface Design
• Grails
• Xslt
• Information Architecture
• Ant
• Development Standards
• Json
• Api Documentation Creation
• Mobile Devices
• Css
• Oauth
• Databases
• Web Design
• Ajax