Principal Software Engineer with 22 years in the Active Directory field at Microsoft. Linda started at Microsoft when AD shipped in 2000 as a university student intern and came back for another 22 years in AD!! Linda spent 16 years in Microsoft Enterprise Support (CSS) as an Escalation Engineer working directly with customers solving and debugging deeply technical Active Directory problems in the field. 6 years ago, she hit her dream to make an even bigger impact on AD and joined the Windows Server Active Directory development team.

Last 6 years Linda has been working on AD bug fixes, security updates and designing and implementing new AD and security related features that shipped in WS2025 and beyond.