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Grace Gong

Grace Gong

Engineering @ Microsoft Azure

Seattle, Washington, United States

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Grace works in engineering at Microsoft Azure. Previously, she was a product manager on the Power BI team within Azure Data, and on the ML/LLM observability product at Datadog.

Grace studied Computer Science at Western University + Georgia Tech, and Business Administration & Management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During her studies, she was a Google Developer Groups on Campus Lead, GitHub Campus Expert & WTM ambassador. She was recognized as a Major League Hacking (MLH) Top 50 hacker. Grace founded a non-profit, Youth180 in 2019 to encourage youth to pursue academic, extracurricular, leadership & developmental opportunities.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Cloud & AI
  • Power BI
  • Data Platform
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Analytics and Big Data
  • Data and AI
  • Machine Learning & AI
  • Web Development
  • Technology Product Management
  • Software Engineering
  • Leadership
  • Community Development
  • Cloud
  • AI
  • Developer Experience
  • Design
  • Strategy
  • Growth
  • Media & Information
  • Social Media Marketing

Grace Hopper Conference Upcoming

Intro to Venture Capital

October 2026 Anaheim, California, United States

AI DevLabs Upcoming

TPU Builder Award - Present

June 2026 Mountain View, California, United States

Microsoft Student Ambassadors Upcoming

Intro to Power BI, Fabric Data Platform & Copilot

April 2026 Redmond, Washington, United States

Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

Contributed to the demo & scenario planning for this FABCON session.

Come witness a Power BI showdown between an expert developer vs. intermediate developer supercharged by AI. Both tackle real-world challenges like designing good data models and polished reports. Like a modern Turing test, you become the judge: can AI-augmented development produce solutions indistinguishable from expert craftsmanship? Or will the subtle nuances of true mastery still stand apart?

March 2026 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Grace Hopper Conference

Intro to Microsoft Power BI, Fabric & Copilot

November 2025 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Supercomputing Community Engagement Committee

SC, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is the annual conference established in 1988 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society.

November 2025

Inside Product Management: Ask Me Anything

Presenter & AMA on Careers in Product

May 2025

Stanford CS106A

Section Leader Volunteer Instructor

April 2025

Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

Created the demo of the Fabric Data Pipelines integration featured in the Power BI Semantic Modeling FABCON session.

March 2025

Data & AI Communities of Practice

Data Modeling & Refresh with Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines & Power BI

March 2025

Hack Western

Intro to Machine Learning APIs & Google Cloud Platform

November 2024 London, Canada

Open Source with GitHub Campus Experts

Hacktoberfest Prep with Campus Experts!

September 2024

Google Devfest

Co-organizer

September 2024 London, Canada

Major League Hacking (MLH) Hackcon

How to Build a Campus Community

August 2024 New York City, New York, United States

GitHub Field Day

GitHub Campus Expert & Organizer

March 2024 New York City, New York, United States

Hack Western

Intro to Maching Learning APIs & Google Cloud Platform

November 2023 London, Canada

GitHub Universe

Panelist on GitHub Campus Expert AMA at GitHub Universe

November 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Grace Hopper Conference

How to Build a Campus Community

September 2023 Orlando, Florida, United States

MongoDB User Group Toronto

September 2023 Toronto, Canada

Major League Hacking (MLH) Hackcon

Facilitated discussion with GitHub Campus Experts

August 2023 New York City, New York, United States

Google I/O

Google Developer Student Clubs - featured on @GoogleforDevs platforms and shared experiences at Google IO

May 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Google Cloud Speaker Series: Develop your career in tech

I was a panelist with the Google Cloud Speaker Series.

April 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Maple Hacks

Intro to Machine Learning, APIs & Google Cloud Platform

March 2023 London, Canada

Ivey Hacks

How to succeed at Hackathons

March 2023 London, Canada

Enactus Hacks

Event Operations Manager

September 2022 London, Canada

Grace Gong

Engineering @ Microsoft Azure

Seattle, Washington, United States

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