Kelly Krout
Kelly loves working on the intersection of humans and technology. He has over 15 years of industry experience building technology products from conception to release from those with a billion users to new v1 launches. Currently he is a Principal UX Research Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division leading a team working on end-to-end developer experiences across Visual Studio, .NET, and Azure. He has patents and publications spanning areas including graphical UI command models, collaborative authoring, database application development, speech and gesture recognition, emotional connection measurement, and gamification.