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Melissa Benua

PlayFab
Melissa Benua

In her career Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—engineer, test, DevOps, and program management—and now senior backend engineer for PlayFab. Melissa has created and run high-availability, high-quality services at Boeing and Microsoft on products such as Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled systems while working on the Bing backend, where she honed the art of keeping highly-available complex systems up while undergoing massive code churn. Melissa isn’t afraid to mix traditional approaches with bold new ideas to make her products better, faster, and more reliable. She’s passionate about maximizing efficiency in her product code and in her developer tools, and about sharing best practices.