Sharing her Microsoft side
“Being able to thrive in a place where I’m challenged is something I surely credit NYUAD for”, she says.
Alshorafa’s journey to Microsoft was unexpected. As a mechanical engineering major, her dream was to work in the aerospace industry but COVID hit the airlines hard and she had to pivot her career plan.
During the lockdown, she started to shift focus from machine design to machine learning and “quickly realized that data is the future for a lot of industries. Everything around us has the potential of being a data source.”
COVID-19, says Alshorafa, turned out to be the ultimate test of character and the decision to join Microsoft one of the best choices she’s made because it opened up a whole new professional passion: intelligent business systems.
“It’s been a journey and I wouldn’t change it.”