Alex Remo
Azure Active Directory , Identity Developer Guidance Team at Microsoft
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Remo is an experienced .NET and cloud-focused developer currently contributing to Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Identity Developer Guidance Team, with a strong background in building and modernizing secure web applications. Over a decade-plus career across Intel, Varian, Lixar, Quest Software, and Microsoft, he has combined backend C#, EF, and SQL expertise with Node.js, Angular, and cloud platforms (Azure and AWS) to deliver maintainable, production-grade systems. At Microsoft he contributes to high-profile Azure AD B2C and ASP.NET Core samples, improving authentication flows, token caching, dependency upgrades, and multi-tenant configuration robustness in repositories used widely by the developer community. Colleagues would describe him as practical and people-focused—he explicitly cites belief in supporting those around him as a professional credo—while continuously exploring AI Web APIs and modern cloud patterns. Based in Ottawa, he brings a hands-on developer mindset with an eye for refactoring legacy code and simplifying startup configurations to improve long-term maintainability.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc of Computer Science, BSc of Computer Science at University
English, Russian
Github Skills (16)
net10
asp-net10
configuration-management10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
azure-ad-b2c10
azure-active-directory10
dotnet-core10
webapi9
webapp9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/active-directory-aspnetcore-webapp-openidconnect-v2
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
An ASP.NET Core Web App which lets sign-in users (including in your org, many orgs, orgs + personal accounts, sovereign clouds) and call Web APIs (including Microsoft Graph)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 98 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on addressing configuration issues within the application. They made multiple commits to fix empty configuration scenarios, updated the solution to handle consent URL creation, and removed redundant namespaces. The changes involved modifications to the OnboardingController and Startup.cs files, indicating a focus on multi-tenant aspects and application startup configurations, likely related to authentication and authorization.
microsoft-graphscenario-webapp-signin
Azure-Samples/active-directory-b2c-dotnet-webapp-and-webapi
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
A combined sample for a .NET web application that calls a .NET web API, both secured using Azure AD B2C
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on updating and refactoring code within the .NET web application and web API project. Their contributions involved updating project dependencies and upgrading to .NET 4.8. They also refactored code, including the replacement of an obsolete method in the task management controllers, likely improving the application's maintainability and performance. The user also updated token caching and removed the setting of TLS 1.2 from the codebase.
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