Kimberly Noel

GTM Strategy & Enablement Leader | Transforming complex into simple across your tech stack

Montreal, Quebec, Canada2.2k followers

Microsoft

ex-Auth0

ex-Major League Hacking

Since I was young, I've loved taking things apart to understand how they work. That curiosity has taken me across developer communities, open source, engineering, product marketing, technical enablement, and go-to-market leadership.
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I've spent over a decade turning what developers and sellers actually need into programs that stick. From community, to product marketing, to owning the systems that get the field ready to sell. No matter the role, I've always been drawn to the same challenge: making complex things easier to understand. Whether the audience has been developers, field teams, or executives, I enjoy connecting ideas, people, and technology in ways that make complex things Along the way, I've been fortunate to be a 5-time Canadian Marketing Association Award winner ca) across:• Innovative Media (×2) • Brand Building• Customer Experience• Business ImpactLearn more at: codes

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MICROSOFTJOB
1. Program GTM Lead
  1Y 1M
2. GTM Mgr, Azure Programs
  2Y 4M
3. Program Mgr, Entrepreneurs…
  1Y 5M
4. Open Source & NoSQL Databa…
  7M
5. Open Source Lead | Canada
  1Y 6M
6. Developer PMM
  2Y
AUTH0JOB
1. Community Eng Mgr
  5M
2. Community Eng
  6M
MAJOR LEAGUE HACKINGJOB
1. Technical Writer
  3M
GITHUBJOB
1. Field Expert, Canada
  5M
2. Developer Evangelist Intern
  3M
3. Campus Expert
  7M
LIQUIDUM APPSJOB
1. Mobile QA Eng
  3M
2. Software Eng Intern
  3M
SLIQ MEDIA TECHNOLOGIESJOB
1. QA Eng
  1Y
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONSJOB
1. Software Developer Intern
  1M

Job: Microsoft — Program GTM Lead | Cloud & AI Platform | Americas · 2025-07 – 2026-08 · 1y 1mo — I lead go‑to‑market execution for Microsoft’s Cloud and AI platform programs across the Americas. My role sits at the intersection of strategy, skilling, and field execution. Making sure big priorities actually land with teams on the ground. My work centers on scaling cloud migration and modernization through clear operating rhythm, skilling, and execution support. I spend most of my time working with field teams, customer success, engineering, and partners to simplify complexity, align on priorities, and turn plans into consistent execution. A big part of my role is improving readiness and confidence, for both customers and internal teams, across cloud migration, modernization, and resil…
Job: Microsoft — Go-to-Market Manager, Azure Programs | Canada · 2023-02 – 2025-06 · 2y 4mo — As a Program Go-to-Market Manager, I led Azure go-to-market and technical enablement programs across Microsoft's Canada business, helping Enterprise businesses as well as Small, Medium Corporate teams confidently understand, position, and adopt Azure solutions. I focused on improving program readiness, pipeline generation, and opportunity progression by working closely with sales, customer success, marketing, and partners to translate product priorities into enablement strategies, launch communications, sales plays, and field-ready resources. A core part of my role was identifying friction, simplifying technical concepts, and turning strategy into practical resources that helped teams und…
Job: Microsoft — Program Manager, Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact | Canada · 2022-01 – 2023-06 · 1y 5mo — Microsoft's Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact program is a world-wide program that supports Social Entrepreneurs and Digital Natives with Positive Impact. The program enables those aligned to the 17 UN SDGs through curated programming and access to technology, expertise, visibility, and connections.
Job: Microsoft — Open Source & NoSQL Database Platform Lead | Canada · 2022-07 – 2023-02 · 7 mo — Led the Azure OSS and NoSQL Database Platform business in Canada and helped customers achieve more with an Open Data Platform in the Cloud. Responsible for the Business Development of products such as Azure Cosmos DB as well as Azure's managed PostgreSQL and MySQL as a service platform.
Job: Microsoft — Open Source Lead | Canada · 2021-01 – 2022-07 · 1y 6mo — Led Microsoft's Open Source Software strategy in Canada. Collaborating with OSS communities, partners and ISVs to enable customers on Microsoft's open platform and, as a result, add value and growth to their businesses. Ultimately advancing Linux and OSS projects on Microsoft Azure and amplifying awareness to the open source ecosystem. • Digital First Responder Award at Microsoft Canada, Recognizes individuals who have gone above & beyond to help customers, partners or community members respond to crisis utilizing Microsoft technology.
Job: Microsoft — Developer Product Marketing Manager | Cloud & Enterprise | Canada · 2018-12 – 2020-12 · 2y — Led professional developer engagement within Canada. Empowered developers and drove growth and quality to the platform's core community of developers. I wore a lot of different hats and interfaced with a lot of people from engineering, sales, social, and more to ultimately drive the strategic vision of continuing to grow the developer ecosystem. I will continue to be empowered everyday to enable the developer community to build the tools and services that serve a diverse audience globally. • x3 Marketing Maestro award at Microsoft Canada • x2 local department Marketing Maestro award at Microsoft Canada • x5 Canadian Marketing Association Award Winner for Campaigns "Microsoft UpDev" and "Mi…
Job: Auth0 — Community Engineer Manager · 2018-07 – 2018-12 · 5 mo — Collaborated across teams such as support and engineering to optimize processes and tools for our developers' experiences. Detected valuable patterns for the rest of the company from the Forum questions such as valuable docs to produce and enriched the quality of technical discussions on security within the developer ecosystem. Collaborated closely with the Community Lead to provide technical advisory to the initiatives around the community. https://community.auth0.com/u/kimcodes/summary
Job: Auth0 — Community Engineer · 2018-01 – 2018-07 · 6 mo — As a Community Engineer at Auth0 I actively worked in a four-person direct team. I built a vaste amount of community tools and demo applications. I interacted daily with developers around the world to facilitate and help integrate Auth0 into their products and solved technical issues. I participated directly in the community forum, teaching proper IAM practices, solving complex technical designs, and gathering insights all while mentoring new team members. https://community.auth0.com/u/kimcodes/summary
Job: Major League Hacking — Technical Writer · 2018-01 – 2018-04 · 3 mo — • Develop instructional guides for technical presentations for topics such as GraphQL and various REST APIs • Produce content for technical concepts with the right level of depth/complexity.
Job: GitHub — Field Expert, Canada · 2017-09 – 2018-02 · 5 mo — • Help support the growth of the Campus Experts program • Empowered Campus Experts throughout the training program and those already within the program • Organized Montreal's Field Day with over 100 students invited to participate. GitHub Field Day aims to bring together student leaders from a region to join forces, instead of competition, with the goal of building new ways to service communities and collaboration amongst groups.
Job: GitHub — Developer Evangelist Intern · 2017-06 – 2017-09 · 3 mo — • Build training modules for the GitHub Campus Experts Training Program. A Campus Expert is a student trained to build a strong technical community. Training modules help students learn skills that are important towards building those technical communities through a combination of various training materials such as video tutorials, written exercises, and assignments. Training modules created: Atom (atom.io) and Open Source Clubs - https://education.github.com/experts • Engage with the community through events like hackathons, conferences, and meetups • Assist in the creation, design, and implementation of GitHub Field Day - a regional unconference for student communities: https://github…
Job: GitHub — Campus Expert · 2016-10 – 2017-05 · 7 mo
Job: Liquidum Apps — Mobile QA Engineer · 2016-09 – 2016-12 · 3 mo — Liquidum is an award-winning maker of mobile apps. Building utility apps for Android and iOS that are fun to use and nice to look at. • Developed mobile test automation framework architecture; used Appium and Selenium
Job: Liquidum Apps — Software Engineering Intern · 2016-05 – 2016-08 · 3 mo — Liquidum is an award-winning maker of mobile apps. Building utility apps for Android and iOS that are fun to use and nice to look at. ● Contributed to the design and architecture of automation projects. ● Developed automated UI test suites using Appium Framework for Hexlock and The Cleaner mobile applications.
Job: Sliq Media Technologies — QA Engineer · 2013-12 – 2014-12 · 1y — ● Refining test suites and writing test results ● Configuring applications and media servers ● Preparing test plans and test cases ● Interpreting test results and presenting them in a format that is appropriate ● Documenting features and tests, as well as ensuring all documentation is clear and complete
Job: Nuance Communications — Software Developer Intern · 2013-04 – 2013-05 · 1 mo — ● Executed unit testing, as well as logged and described issues during manual testing ● Developed iOS applications and integrated internal voice recognition framework
School: Concordia University — Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
School: Concordia University — Software Engineering
School: Dawson College — Computer Science Technology, Specialization in adminstrative data processing

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