Michelle Noorali

Michelle Noorali

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft under Azure R&D on the Cloud Native Compute team. She came to Microsoft through an acquisition of a startup called Deis where she got heavily involved in a niche area of tech that exploded recently: containers, container orchestration, distributed systems, Kubernetes. She is a core maintainer on several open source projects. Michelle serves on the governing committee of Kubernetes, one of the highest velocity open source projects on GitHub, and she is also on the governing board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.