Paul Yuknewicz

About Paul Yuknewicz

Product Lead, Azure Serverless, Microsoft Dapr member, maintainer for quickstarts, steering and technical oversight committeeAs a lead product manager for Azure Developer Compute at Microsoft, I am responsible for the PM team that designs the developer experiences for serverless and microservices applications in the cloud. This includes Azure Functions and also Microsoft\'s contributions to Dapr (a CNCF incubations project for building microservices). In my role I\'m very passionate about helping developers succeed building high-scale distributed applications, and building a strong collaboration with customers so we\'re in tune with their needs. We\'re having fun learning and challenging the status quo in a breadth of technologies and languages, e.g. Linux, Windows, Python, Node, Go, Java.NET, Serverless, containers, service meshes, and application observability. Recently I have become Dapr member, maintainer for quickstarts, and steering and oversight committee

Experience

1. Principal Group Product Manager

   Microsoft

   May 2021 — Present

   As Group Product Manager for Azure Serverless, my team is responsible for defining and building the services that run developer applications at all kinds of scale. This includes Azure Functions, and also Microsoft\'s contributions to Dapr, which a CNCF open source project to build distributed applications using best practices (see dapr.io). I also look out for new observability experiences to make teams successful running and diagnosing their apps.

Education

• Haverford College

  BS, Physics, Computer Science concentration

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Visual Basic
• Web Development
• Visual Studio
• Software Design
• Cloud Computing
• C#
• .net
• Software Engineering
• Enterprise Software
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Project Management
• Windows Azure
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Program Management