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Sara Itani

Sara is currently a Software Engineer on the Node Tools for Visual Studio Team. Previously, she worked as an intern on the Lync and Lightswitch teams, as well in research labs covering biology and robotics. She focused human computer interfaces for her master's degree and has also worked for a couple of web-based start-ups.

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