In this episode, Soumow sits with Charlotte Yarkoni, Corporate Vice President of the newly created Growth and Ecosystem division at Microsoft. Charlotte talks about growth and adoption of Azure and her career journey and the different roles she has held in her career. GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9Follow @Soumow

In the second episode of Cloud Gal, we talk to Maoni Stephens, main Garbage Collector (GC) developer of .NET. Maoni explains her work on the Garbage Collector, an automatic memory manager, and provides a high-level overview of this process. She continues with how her journey led her to become one of the most knowledgeable developers of GC, including her trajectory at Microsoft, and her experience with a prominent mentor. She also shares the story of her childhood passion for science and technology, her thoughts on cats and the internet, how she has used dance to balance her work life, and provides some of her thoughts on women in technology fields. [00:00] Episode 2 Introduction [00:35] Maoni Stephens introduction [01:11] High-level overview of Garbage Collector [07:21] How Maoni came to CLR [09:52] Garbage Collection challenges [11:21] Development process and history of GC in CLR [15:21] Dancing [17:07] Cats [18:55] Childhood trajectory to science track [23:21] Expressions of creativity: drawing and anime [24:30] Hobbies: reading GC papers and going to zoos [26:50] Inspirations and role models [27:47] Thoughts on women in tech [33:55] Closing and Maoni's blog address

Audrey Colle just celebrated 17 years at Microsoft. She worked in many business units from speech recognition, communication APIs, Bing ranking, Advertising platform, Data Group and is now an engineering manager in the AzureCAT team (Customer Advisory Team). She has a passion for big data and analysis and loves learning every day. With her husband and their 2 kids, they love all the outdoor the northwest offers (skiing, hiking, backpacking) as well as discovering the world (latest big adventure was their sabbatical backpacking Peru, Bolivia and Chili for 10 weeks). As an active volunteer, she mentors and sponsors a bright strong woman in Kenya through a fantastic organization GGBC. Some of her favorite Ted Talks: https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_arehttps://www.ted.com/talks/michael_kimmel_why_gender_equality_is_good_for_everyone_men_includedhttp://www.ted.com/talks/susan_colantuono_the_career_advice_you_probably_didn_t_gethttp://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_why_it_s_time_to_forget_the_pecking_order_at_workhttp://www.ted.com/talks/dame_stephanie_shirley_why_do_ambitious_women_have_flat_heads?language=enFeel free to send her a linkedIn request or email. GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9Follow @Soumow

In this episode, Soumow sits with Julia Liuson, Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio and .NET, as she talks about Visual Studio, culture, her career journey and the different challenges she faced -- being a young engineer out of university, being an immigrant, being a women in tech. GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9Follow @Soumow

In this episode, Golnaz sits down with the amazing Maria Naggaga, a Program Manager on the .NET team who loves to draw Afros at http://ladynaggaga.tumblr.com and help the younger dev generation use our platforms. GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9 Follow @golnaz89 Follow @LadyNaggaga

In this episode, Soumow sits with Kasey Champion, a passionate Software Engineer at Microsoft and a Computer Science teacher in Seattle. Kasey on social media : InstagramMedium Follow @techie4good GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9Follow @Soumow

In this episode, Soumow sits with Laura Butler the one and only Star Treknical Goddess, the first female Technical Fellow at Microsoft and currently the Vice President of OneNote.She specializes in debugging problems of all kinds, from crashing code to team morale to cookies that don't brown properly. She's sorry that you're still using code she wrote 20+ years ago. A great article about Laura here: Laura Butler, the Cat's Pajamas.Follow @LauraCatPJs GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9Follow @Soumow

In the pilot episode of Cloud Gal, we talk to Oana Platon, Principal Developer in Azure Service Fabric. Oana shares her technical history, her technical passions, role models, work/life balance and self care practices, inspirations, support, and provides an overview of Azure Service Fabric. [00:00] Introduction to Cloud Gal Series[00:50] Oana Plato Introduction[01:57] Overview of distributed systems platforms and Azure Service Fabric[08:40] History of the Service Fabric team[10:00] Service Fabric DevOps practices (agile, livesite, experience, challenges, health reports, internal customers, cluster management) [17:20] Future of Service Fabric; problem that Service Fabric solves; Azure Container Services[18:50] General experience as a female developer on the team[20:17] Challenges[22:50] Support for Women in Azure[24:15] Oana's path to becoming a developer[31:17] Oana's first job at Microsoft[32:10] Words of Wisdom for women interested in computer science[32:45] Family and priority setting[36:55] Team support[39:15] Sources of inspiration

In this episode, Soumow sits down and chat with Melissa Sassi, CEO & Founder of MentorNations, a community of volunteers who believe digital literacy is a human right. Melissa also works at Microsoft and is a Phd student. She is a proof that even if you did not study CS, you can still work in the IT world and contribute to it in your own way and using your own tools. Where you can find Melissa: MentorNations website Melissa's Twitter: @mentorafrika MentorNations Facebook Page GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9 Follow @Soumow

Golnaz hung out with Roslyn's Program Manager and member of the C#/VB team, Kasey Uhlenhuth! This Kentucky gal talks about her interests within the industry, her aspirations outside of tech, and where you can see her talk next! Follow her on Twitter @kuhlenhuth.