Summary
Madoka Chiyoda is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft in Japan with 13 years of software engineering experience, blending hands-on cloud and mobile development with developer community leadership. She moved from application and backend development (C#, Xamarin, ASP.NET) into advocacy roles at Microsoft, where she helps developers adopt cloud technologies while drawing on real product experience. Madoka co-founded Code Polaris, a 400+ member network for women engineers in Japan, and maintains a large social presence (84k Twitter followers) that amplifies technical outreach. Unusually for a tech advocate, she is also an accomplished manga artist who produced an official government manga on cybersecurity preparedness, reflecting a talent for communicating complex topics through creative media.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, English Literature (British and Commonwealth), Bachelor's degree, English Literature (British and Commonwealth) at Tsuda College
English, Japanese