Summary
Lori Fraleigh is a seasoned technology and product leader currently serving as Principal Group Product Manager (Senior Director) for Azure SDKs and Developer Experience at Microsoft, with a career focused on developer platforms, tools, and ecosystems. She has repeatedly built and scaled developer programs—driving portal consolidations, SDK strategy, and content/engagement growth—across major companies including Samsung, Intuit, Motorola, and Amazon Lab126. Known as an industry thought leader in developer relations and technology evangelism, she blends product management, product marketing, and people leadership to make platforms approachable, diagnosable, and idiomatic for diverse language communities. Lori’s work has repeatedly increased developer engagement and third-party integrations at scale (e.g., rapidly expanding QuickBooks app ecosystem and relaunching developer portals). Based in Sunnyvale, she pairs deep technical training (MS EE, Stanford) with hands-on product delivery and a knack for operationalizing corner cases that improve developer experience. An uncommon strength is her track record of aligning engineering, marketing, and business partners to turn complex platform challenges into pragmatic tools and measurable ecosystem growth.
5 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Marysville High School
BS Computer and Electical Engineering, BS Computer and Electical Engineering at Purdue University
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English