Name: Nana Essilfie-Conduah

Hometown: London, England

Job: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) – Enterprise Client (Windows Intune) – IW Portal

Years at Microsoft: 1

Favorite restaurant in the Boston area: Fire & Ice

Last thing you Binged: Cortana vs Siri

Something cool you’ve worked on recently: The Intune IW Portal mobile redesign. The portal serves as the web UI and probably the main face that the average Intune customer will interact with. It’s pretty cool, as through the portal users manage their software and devices regardless of which device they access it from.

What inspires you about technology? The ability to take huge problems and visions and make them more easily comprehendible and visualized by the average person. Take simulations and graphical prototyping used in engineering, they go a long way to moving a thought from concept to ready for design or even implementation. Simulations that employ UI’s blow me away personally; the data visually does the speaking for you.

Related Reading: How Microsoft’s Cambridge team helped shape Siri-competitor Cortana via Boston Business Journal