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Microsoft EDC

Frontend & Design Engineering internship at Microsoft's Egypt Development Center.

Frontend & Design Engineering InternshipJuly - Oct 2023
Baraa standing in front of Microsoft Logo in Zamalek, Egypt office
Microsoft's certificate of completion holding into a MacBook next to a Microsoft Thermal Mug
Ahmed Tolba (Partner Engineering Manager & Site Lead) handing a Microsoft Certificate of Completion to Baraa
Group photo of Microsoft Interns
Baraa standing in front of Microsoft Logo in Zamalek, Egypt office
Baraa's regretting life choices (kinda)
Zamalek greeneries
Umm Kalthoum and rive nile, in front of Microsoft Office

Most of what I built here is under NDA, so I can't show the actual work. But I can say I redesigned an internal developer tool that engineers use daily, and prototyped a browser extension concept from scratch. Both projects were a mix of design and frontend engineering, which is exactly the kind of work I enjoy most.

Working at this scale changes how you think. Even small UI decisions affect thousands of users, so you stop asking “does this look right” and start asking “does this hold up across every edge case, locale, and accessibility requirement?”

Huge thanks to my mentor, Mohammed Saad, for everything he taught me. He also gifted me Refactoring UI, which is still one of my favorite design books. I seriously love this book.