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awentzel/README.md

ENGINEERING & PRODUCT EXECUTIVE

AI Platforms, Enterprise Web Platforms, Enterprise Web Experiences Leader

Microsoft Alumni and senior executive with 20+ years of industry recognized experience in creative and technical leadership from concept to market-leading enterprise web experiences and enterprise-scale web platforms. An AI-first mindset, contributor to web standards, and open-source developer experiences. Advocate for enabling people, optimizing processes, and architecting enterprise-ready SaaS to delivery best-in-class customer experiences on cloud-native platforms.

Proven success orchestrating multi-disciplinary leadership between technical architecture, operations excellence, product strategy, design vision, governance, and business outcomes that delivery measurable ROI and reducing time to market through platform innovation.

Recent Achievements

  • Delivered AI-first digital transformation on cloud-native healthcare SaaS platform scaling from $1M to $4M ARR (300% growth) while establishing enterprise governance, observability, customer obsession, and operational excellence reducing time to market by 80%.

  • Co-founded two enterprise-scale web frameworks at Microsoft—the open-source FAST project (9.5k stars, 320M+ users) and the Microsoft Web Framework (50+ teams, 194 markets), now Fluent UI. Fundamentally transforming how Microsoft builds accessible, performant, and standards-compliant web experiences across its entire product portfolio. Reducing development costs by millions annually, decreasing time-to-market, and reducing governance risk across Microsoft’s web properties.

  • Conceived and championed a best-in-class enterprise design system, prototyping platform, and design-to-code workflows—driving creative innovation and delightful customer experiences that reduced design-to-development, accelerated delivery 24x, while saving $2M annually in design headcount.

  • Contributed to Proteus, built on FAST and Web Platform APIs, as an advanced web-based hardware and software emulation platform to assist design and enable engineering with end-to-end user scenarios, living requirements, and vision pitching to c-suite stakeholders for the future of Windows.

  • Directed technical architecture and engineering on Microsoft MSN Green Channel, a custom Web Platform achieving over 20M monthly visitors and sponsored by Chevy to return $1M in recurring monthly advertising revenue.

  • Delivered technical architecture and engineering services to AOL Mobile, building Wirefly.com, a white labeled e-commerce storefront platform for over 75 Internet retailers including Best Buy and Radio Shack to sell wireless services and devices.

Core Value Proposition: Bridging technical excellence with business strategy to deliver enterprise-grade AI platforms and corporate cultures that drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation.

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