Fatima Rafiqui is a Senior Product Designer at Microsoft, designing AI and data experiences for Microsoft Fabric. Working at the intersection of engineering and design, she is a named inventor on two granted patents from Juniper Networks. She starts every project with the "why," believing that the right problem, told well, is what makes design matter. Previously she has been a GHC Scholar and has spoken at FabCon, ACM Richard Tapia, and FOSSASIA. She judges for the Microsoft Global Hackathon and Google Developer Groups DevFest, and mentors student innovators through Georgia Tech and Break Through Tech at Cornell University. She holds an M.S. in HCI and Design from Indiana University.