Amber Hoak

About

Amber Hoak is a Software Engineer at Microsoft working on special projects. Major focus areas include developing software for large-scale data analysis, graph analytics, data science applications, and information visualizations.

The team’s works to extend current capabilities to provide an overlap in business intelligence and artificial intelligence and allow for large, unstructured streaming data use cases. The team shipped a suite of new data interfaces through Power BI in 2016. The Power BI visuals, which have all been open sourced, include the Network Navigator, Time Brush, Table Sorter, Attribute Slicer, Cluster Map, Facet Key, and Strippets Browser. The team has also shipped two “solutions templates” for social brand management and news analytics in 2016 and a news based template in 2017.

Before joining Microsoft, Amber worked for the Department of Defense as cyber security analyst and later as a software developer. She built productionized applications and provided analytical tools to support counter-terrorism and cyber-security efforts.

Amber holds a M.S from University of Denver in Software Development and Design and a B.A from University of Washington in Mathematics.