Flora Taagen
Flora is a Product Manager on the Azure Linux team at Microsoft, where she focuses on driving development and adoption of the Azure Linux container host in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Over the past year, she's worked closely with engineering and customers to deliver a secure, performant, and optimized Linux platform for cloud-native workloads.
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July 22, 2025
S3E2: Remote Realities: Product Management in a Hybrid World with Flora Taagen
What if your path into product management started behind a coffee counter, in the middle of a global pandemic? In this episode, Karl talks with Flora Taagen about a journey into product management that looks nothing like a straight line. Flora shares how she went from studying computer science to serving coffee during COVID, where suddenly “making coffee” also meant rethinking safety, budgets, and how a small business survives when the rules change every week. That experience, it turns out, tra...
Guest: Flora Taagen