# Federica Nocera

> Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/federica

Software Engineering and AI leader with multi-industry experience leading Forward Deployed Engineering teams to build and productionalize AI solutions across technology, manufacturing, retail, finance and healthcare. Extensive management experience leading large scale multi-team efforts to develop next generation Data, Analytics and AI solutions across industries. Committed to sharing best practices between software engineering and machine learning and enabling collaborative teams. 

Driven to explore the combination of human behavior and the development of innovations within technology. Led projects at the University of Chicago to create predictive models of invention from the analysis of patent networks. Built several models to simulate human motivations and personality. 

Previously, Equity Research Analyst covering Media and Telecommunications companies. Double Master’s in Engineering and Computational Social Science.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer  - Forward Deployed Engineering @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States
Software & Machine Learning Engineer working closely with Azure customers on GenAI application lifecycle from prototype to production.

### Principal Software Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
Software Manager leading our US based teams in Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE), working closely with customers in the Financial Services Industry to help them realize innovative projects using cutting edge technologies on Microsoft Azure. Most recently, my teams were focused on building next generation Data and AI products for the capital markets.

### Principal Software Engineering Lead @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
Software Lead managing a team of talented engineers working closely with customers to help them realize innovative projects using cutting edge technologies on Microsoft Azure.

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### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States
Tech Lead in Commercial Software Engineering (CSE), working with some of Microsoft's largest customers to solve critical challenges through the development and productionalization of custom Machine Learning models.

The Commercial Software Engineering team (CSE) is a global engineering organization that works directly with the largest companies and not-for-profits in the world to tackle their most significant technical challenges. Join the CSE Microsoft team at aka.ms/csejobs!

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, United States
Working alongside customers on the Commercial Software Engineering team (CSE).

### Data Scientist II @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom
Delivered Machine Learning models and Data Science analysis to drive product and marketing decisions for Xbox and other consumer devices.

### Data Scientist @ SCL
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom
Delivered Machine Learning and Data Science solutions to drive advertising and marketing decisions for range of customers across multiple sectors (including: healthcare, finance, non profit organizations).

### Research Assistant @ The University of Chicago
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Research into the “Knowledge of Knowledge”. Specifically, managed a network science project into Organizational Learning and the Patenting Process, at the Knowledge Lab.

### Equity Research Analyst @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Built valuation models and wrote research reports on Telecommunications and Media companies.


## Education
### MEng in Engineering Science
University of Oxford

### Master's of Arts Program in the Social Sciences in with focus in Computational Social Science
University of Chicago

### University of Oxford

### University of Oxford


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fnocera
- Website: https://federicanocera.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05