Amanda Silver is the Corporate VP and Head of Product for Microsoft's Developer Division, whose mission is to empower developers and their teams to achieve more. It includes our developer tools, runtimes, and services; the developer experience for Azure; our Azure Application Development PaaS and serverless offerings; Azure DevOps; the Open Source Programs Office, and Microsoft’s first-party Engineering Systems team. Her focus on customer-driven engineering with a tight digital feedback loop has fueled culture change at Microsoft. She championed customer-focused innovations like Visual Studio Live Share and IntelliCode, which have transformed how developers and teams build and collaborate worldwide. She’s also played a major part in the introduction of Microsoft’s open source products, having led the TypeScript and Visual Studio Code launches, and in the acquisitions of Xamarin and GitHub. Unleashing the creativity of all developers is her personal mission.