Marleine Daoud

About Marleine Daoud

Principal Software Engineering Manager (M1 & M2) at Microsoft with 15 YOE. Led geo-distributed dev teams across the USA, Ireland & India, with team sizes spanning from 15 directs as M1 to 26 reports across sub-teams as M2 (managing managers). Proven effective manager receiving 91 score on team health survey (15 pts above company) and 100% on confidence in manager effectiveness survey (13 pts above company) while successfully delivering v1 of a new product.Track record of high-quality delivery with care for customer experience & engineering fundamentals: 12+ newly built experiences across 4 portals in 6 months resulting in 208k+ B2B MAU without escalations. Innovative cutting-edge technology: led many v1 products with features consistently demoed as part of Satya Nadella’s (Microsoft CEO) keynotes at conferences like Ignite and //Build every year for the last 4 consecutive years. Owner, solely accountable for apps & frontend of portals (2M+ MAU), working with cross-functional teams spanning across organizations (PMs, designers, data scientists, marketing & research) on diverse types of products: consumer B2C (Windows, MSN, Bing, Xbox), enterprise B2B (supply chain, data power platforms, ai copilot) & internal tools. Technical skills in C#, XAML, React, TypeScript/JavaScript; prior experience in Java, C, CUDA, VHDL, R, SQL, K8s, XML, AngularJS. International experience having previously lived, studied and worked across 3 continents - North America (Canada & USA), Europe (Germany) and Africa (Middle East, EMEA - Egypt): highly valuable when managing geo-distributed multi-cultural inclusive teams and when delivering products shipping in many countries & languages that serve millions of diverse folks across the globe. Graduated from the International Master program: INFOTECH in Universität Stuttgart, Germany, receiving the Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Information Technology.Currently located in the area of Seattle, Washington.The best way to contact me is by e-mail: m•••••••@gmail.comPlease feel free to check my About Me page: http://about.me/marleineSpecialty: Software Engineering Manager

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineering Manager - Microsoft Agent 365, Cloud & Copilot Studio

   Microsoft

   Aug 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Working on Agent 365, the control plane for enterprise AI agents. Till Aug 2025: focused on Knowledge for Agent Cloud, leading the Knowledge Authoring Team (KAT), responsible for features that ground agents/copilots in enterprise domain data on the Microsoft Copilot Studio portal. Prior: I was the Engineering Manager (EM) of Dataverse Core Experiences (DV CoreX). Our mission was to make DV the most powerful & user-friendly data platform by building intuitive UI for our Power Platform customers to easily achieve more. We did this by building core experiences that were integral to our users\' scenarios, improving their satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy. As a team, we emphasize engineering excellence, a great customer experience, product quality, and team culture. Goals are: 1. build experiences that delight our customers every time they interact with our products 2. follow best practices, prioritize reuse and consistency by sharing components across products 3. exercise a growth & learning mindset 4. cultivate an inclusive, energetic and fun team culture & environment • Delivered new features: 208k+ MAU in 6 months with innovative AI features presented in conferences. • Effective project mgmt: define strategy & set clear direction, gain stakeholder buy-in with data-driven goals. Plan & prioritize features, identify scope & roadmap, discuss tech designs & risk mgmt. Delivering results through managing multiple cross-functional workstreams with ambiguity requiring crucial collaboration. • Skilled people manager: hire & onboard team members for success, unblock issues, and facilitate smooth execution with cross-organizational communication. Set expectations, mentor & coach, measure impact while empowering autonomy and developing team members. • Led manager training sessions about how to prepare for challenging reward discussions and gave guiding techniques about how to foster a culture of recognition, addressing an audience of 50+ managers.

Skills

• Cuda
• Xml
• Html
• Software Engineering
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Subversion
• Visual Studio
• Websphere Application Server
• Eclipse
• Software Development
• Latex
• Java
• Web Applications
• R
• Silverlight
• C
• Programming
• Databases
• Agile Methodologies
• Lotus Sametime Plug-in
• Dojo
• Web Services
• Sql
• Linux
• Asp.net
• Javascript
• Uml
• Xaml
• Software Design
• Object Oriented Design
• Websphere Commerce
• Json