Grace presenting at Google Developer Student Club

Grace Gong

Engineer at Microsoft Azure in Customer Reliability Engineering, working on cloud reliability at scale, AIOps, and incident response. Formerly PM on the Microsoft Fabric Data Platform, with engineering and product experience at Datadog, OTPP, GoDaddy, and Scotiabank.

Experience

Microsoft 2024 - Present

Software Engineer, Service Engineering 2026 - Present

Azure Engineering Operations (EngOps)

Cloud reliability at scale: incident response, outage management, and customer-facing technical operations for Azure services.

Product Manager, Power BI 2024 - 2026

Fabric Data Platform & Power BI, Azure Data

Shipped product features across Power BI and Fabric at 30M+ MAU scale; delivered initiatives on Azure Data Platform.

Datadog Winter 2024

Product Manager Intern Machine Learning & LLM Observability

Owned product roadmap for LLM Observability; shipped core monitoring and tracing features for production AI applications.

Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Fall 2023

Software Engineer Intern Enterprise Architecture

Built internal tooling to modernize enterprise architecture systems and automate workflows.

GoDaddy Summer 2023

Software Engineer Intern Domain Auctions UI

Shipped UI features for GoDaddy Domain Auctions; built and deployed production-facing frontend components.

Microsoft Fall 2022 · Winter 2023

Program Manager Intern Finance & Compliance

Scotiabank Summer 2022

BI Engineer Intern Trade Operations

Deployed BI dashboards for Global Banking & Markets trade operations, enabling real-time analytics across trading desks.

Loblaw Summer 2021

Data Analyst Intern Specialty Health Network

UNESCO 2020 - 2022

Researcher Media & Technology

Youth180° 2019 - 2024

Founder, Executive Director Youth Leadership Non-Profit

Local Business 2014 - 2022

Business Operations Manager

Education MSCS · Georgia Tech MSM · UIUC BSCS · UWO

Credentials Azure AI Fundamentals · Microsoft Code in Place Section Leader · Stanford University Venture Capital University · Berkeley Executive Education Dale Carnegie Training · University of Central Missouri

Alumni Ventures Fellow Selected for the 2026 cohort of the Alumni Ventures Venture Fellow program.

Yahoo Finance Look Book

MLH Top 50 Hacker, 14x Hackathon Finalist Selected out of 150,000 Major League Hacking (MLH) hackers for technical projects and community impact.

Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers Recognized as 1 of 15 students from the province for outstanding volunteerism and community impact.

Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award Awarded to the graduating student (Top 1/250) with exceptional community impact. Completed 1,400+ volunteer hours across 20+ community organizations.

Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award Recognized as 1 of 2 students from the province with exceptional contributions to cultural and natural heritage conservation.

Scholarship Google, Bank of Canada, RSM, Scotiabank, York University Alumni Award of Distinction, and Loran Semi-finalist.

Projects

Top Pick

Power BI MCP Agentic Development 2025

Built Agentic Development in Power BI Workflow & Demo. Featured at FABCON 2026.

GitHub

Power BI·MCP·Agentic AI·Azure

TMDL Visual Studio Code Extension 2025

Product on the TMDL Visual Studio Code Extension with 45K+ installs.

Blog·GitHub·Post

Power BI·VS Code·TMDL·Azure

Power BI Desktop 2025

Product on Power BI Desktop. Power BI has 30M+ Monthly Active Users. Presented at GHC 2025.

Power BI Installer Page

Power BI·Azure

Semantic Model Refresh Templates in Power BI hover

Semantic Model Refresh Templates in Power BI 2025

Product on the Fabric Data Pipelines integration in Power BI. Featured at FABCON 2025.

Blog·Docs·Demo·Post

Power BI·Fabric·Azure

LLM Training on TPUs with JAX & vLLM 2026

Fine-tuned a domain-specific LLM on TPUs using JAX & deployed via vLLM for inference.

JAX·vLLM·TPU·LLM·Python

Deprecation of Legacy Excel & CSV Import 2026

Product on the Excel & CSV Import experience in Power BI Service & modernization plan.

Blog

Power BI·Azure

Top Pick

ML/LLM Observability 2024

Product on Machine Learning / Large Language Model Observability.

LLM·Observability·Python·Datadog

Top Pick

Deep Learning Project | RBC Borealis AI 2023

Deep learning model for earthquake detection & research paper for RBC's Borealis AI institute.

TensorFlow·PyTorch·Azure·Nvidia

Google Cloud Skillsboost Review 2023

PRD detailing research-driven methods to improve user engagement for GCP.

Product Management·Design·GCP

C-Horse Language 2023

A custom programming language designed for children, featuring 'Recipe' based functions and simple syntax.

C++

RippleChat | Google Software Product Sprint 2022

A mental health support chatbot.

Dialogflow·HTML/CSS·Javascript·Google Cloud

MLH Prep Fellowship 2022

Real time weather application and other features built with team.

Ruby·Jekyll·React·Netlify

Eye Assist | SheHacks 'Architect Better Future' 2022

Assistive tech app using OpenCV & eye-tracking to empower users with limited mobility.

Flutter·OpenCV·Computer Vision

SpeechAssist | 2nd Place Overall 2022

Mobile interpretation app for the visually & hearing impaired using real-time TensorFlow.

Flutter·Tensorflow·Mobile Development

Musio | WaffleHacks Best Art & Music 2022

Music collaboration platform using WebRTC for real-time interaction & CockroachDB for data storage.

React.js·WebRTC·Node.js·CockroachDB

Futerview | 3rd Overall & Best Use of AI 2022

Interview prep site for marginalized communities via AI-driven feedback & accessibility features.

React·AssemblyAI·Design

Robota | 3rd Overall 2022

Job-matching platform to assist displaced civilians in finding immediate work opportunities.

Figma·Product Management·Design

Cryptogal | Best Finance Hack 2022

Financial analysis dashboard with real-time insights & data visualization for crypto trends.

Python·Pandas·APIs

Care Connect | Best Accessibility Hack 2022

Service-matching platform connecting users with local non-profits via location and category filtering.

PostgreSQL·Express·React·Node.js

F3stival | Best Domain Name 2022

Exploring the metaverse through a specialized concert platform built on the DeSo protocol.

Design·Web Development·React

Moodji | Best Domain Name 2022

Mental health tracker that identifies emotional patterns and provides actionable wellness tips.

Dart·Ruby

mEco | Equity & Sustainability 2020

iOS platform routing users to local businesses & offering sustainability tools for entrepreneurs.

iOS / Swift·Google Maps API

PinkRibbons | Girls in Tech 2020

Mobile application improving access to breast cancer preventive care specifically for women of color.

Java·Android

Northstar | Hack it together

Personalized discovery engine for finding curated books, movies, and music recommendations.

React·Google Cloud·APIs

Youth180 | Non-Profit Community 2019

Website for my non-profit dedicated to youth empowerment & community resources.

HTML/CSS·Javascript·Google Cloud Platform

First Lego League | Trash Trek 2016

Built a LEGO robotics project with my team to tackle e-waste reduction for the First Lego League Trash Trek season.

Robotics·LEGO Mindstorms·Engineering·Sustainability

Junior Solar Car Competition 2014

Designed and built a solar-powered miniature vehicle for the annual Junior Solar Car Competition.

Hardware·Solar Energy·Engineering

Speaking & Events

WiML Symposium at ICML 2026 Poster

July 2026 · Seoul, South Korea

Accepted poster abstract at the Women in Machine Learning workshop co-located with ICML 2026.

Grace Hopper Celebration 2025 Speaker

Nov 2025 · Chicago, IL

Presented on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric with Copilot.

HackCon 2024 Speaker

Aug 2024 · New York, NY

MLH's annual hackathon organizer conference. Presented on building inclusive hacker communities.

Grace Hopper Celebration 2026 Speaker

2026 · Anaheim, CA

Session on Intro to Venture Capital.

Microsoft Student Ambassadors Speaker

Apr 2026 · Online

Presented on Intro to Power BI, Fabric Data Platform & Copilot.

Data & AI Communities of Practice Speaker

Mar 2025 · Online

Presented on Data Modeling & Refresh with Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines & Power BI.

GitHub Universe 2023 Panelist

Nov 2023 · San Francisco, CA

GitHub Campus Experts panelist.

Google Cloud Speaker Series Panelist

Apr 2023 · Online

Panelist on developing your career in tech.