Andrei Popov
Principal Software Engineer At Microsoft Windows Security
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrei Popov is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft Windows Security with 11+ years of experience designing and standardizing security protocols, and over two decades building systems and embedded software. He drives industry initiatives from hardware-bound security tokens and passwordless client authentication to TLS/DTLS and QUIC hardening, and co-authored core Token Binding and TLS 1.3 contributions. Andrei owns the (D)TLS implementation in Windows and has implemented or led features tied to numerous RFCs and real-world mitigations for high-profile attacks like POODLE and FREAK. He regularly architects cross-group security work across Azure, Office365 and identity services, pairing protocol-level rigor with cloud-scale interoperability and performance optimization. A former firmware and device-software lead for LifeCam and an author on multiple patents, he combines deep protocol expertise with practical product delivery and manufacturing improvements.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Ural State Technical University
Github Skills (39)
tla10
specification10
url-parser10
rfc10
ssl9
ldap9
ftps9
ftp9
websocket9
binding9
receiver9
curl9
scp9
sftp9
command-line-tool8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TokenBinding/WG-Charter
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 commits in 4 days
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