Shannon Ferguson

About

Experience

• Microsoft (Full-time · 4 yrs)
  • Software Engineer II
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Software Engineer
    Aug 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC Software Engineering Intern at Cargill
  Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 · 4 mos

• Software Engineering Intern at Microsoft
  May 2021 - Aug 2021 · 4 mos

  • Orchestrated developer documentation and implementation of a new feature for Microsoft Teams, an iOS application with more than 140 million active users • Established drag and drop functionality for Teams iPad using Swift, Objective C, and various native Apple API’s to handle and parse local and external data • Enhanced Teams mobile by implementing paste support for images and files along with various bug fixes throughout the codebase

• Events Coordinator and 54 Co-director at Founders - Illinois Entrepreneurs
  Feb 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  -Co-directed 54: a startup competition geared towards allowing students to develop pitches for a startup and get mentorship from entrepreneurs -Coordinated events that aim to spur university students’ interest in start-up culture and entrepreneurship through competitions and networking opportunities

• iOS Engineering Intern at M1 Finance: Smart Money Management
  May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos

  • Coordinated research, design, and implementation efforts across 3 platform teams for a $53M Series B FinTech Startup • Implemented reset password flow using Swift which involved new deep link support, GraphQL integration, and token management • Revamped and implemented an integral, high-traffic biometric authorization flow executed 1M+ times daily by hundreds of thousands of users