Benoit Barabe

As a Director of Engineering in Microsoft Office, Barabe is in charge of driving the Software Development of a group of software and shared services. Specifically, leading a development organisation of >600 software engineers across four major development centers in the US, Europe and Asia.

Barabe' teams include the Excel application across all platforms, where we are making big architectural investments that will have profound impact in the value and relevance of the product. They are also developing the Microsoft Project, Access, and our overall external developer APIs, tools and ecosystems.

As a technical leader, he is involved in setting the architectural strategy while making sure it aligns with our business ambitions, and ensuring quality implementations.