Alain Maillot

Principal Engineering Manager

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

I am a strong technical leader with a passion for growing individuals and helping them achieve their goals. I strive to help organizations not just achieve more, but reach beyond what others believe is possible. Every day I aspire to solve customer problems and deliver great experiences, regardless of device, platform, or location.

Experience

  • Microsoft (19 yrs 1 mo)
    • Principal Engineering Manager
      Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

      As engineering manager for the cross platform game streaming library, I lead a team of exceptional software engineers working across multiple code bases and platforms. We deliver continuous features and fixes to many partner teams and ensure stability and consistently across releases. My team routinely champions best practices and helps lead the org in modern software delivery thinking, through work on tooling and pipeline automations, Additionally we partner with other dev teams to deliver a react native application to partner game studios for experience validation.

    • Senior Program Manager Lead
      Oct 2019 - Mar 2020 · 6 mos

      As compliance tooling lead for MSR and Bing, I lead a team of Technical Program Managers in building out and supporting solutions to enable compliance initiatives across the organization. Our team partnered with subject matter experts across Accessibility, Privacy, and Security spaces to creating tooling and processes that facilitated collaboration, data collection and sign offs for product and research teams.

    • Senior Technical Program Manager
      Apr 2016 - Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Designed, architected, and coordinated enterprise productivity and search features across enterprise compliant Cortana features in Outlook Mobile, Microsoft Search in Bing and Microsoft Windows. Lead internal efforts to bootstrap a new enterprise within the Bing organization to meet customers with a need or preference to maintain enterprise data on-premise.

  • Research Assistant at University of Calgary
    Apr 2007 - Jun 2007 · 3 mos

  • Intern at Petro-Soft Systems Ltd.
    2005 - 2007 · 2 yrs

  • Research Assistant at ABB Corporate Research
    Mar 2006 - Sep 2006 · 7 mos

  • SDET at Microsoft
    May 2005 - Dec 2005 · 8 mos