Bogdan Gavril
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBogdan Gavril is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Cambridge with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that produce widely used authentication SDKs and developer tools. He currently leads MSAL SDKs (.NET, Java, Python, Go) at Microsoft, ensuring resilience, scale and security for services like Teams, Office and Azure. His background spans backend, DevOps and QA across Microsoft and Amazon, with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as Azure Pipelines Tasks and Microsoft Authentication Libraries. Bogdan has a strong track record of shipping performance improvements and automation—delivering features early, accelerating code-map generation by ~70%, and creating SonarQube build tasks that became top-used extensions. He combines deep protocol and identity expertise with pragmatic engineering management and a history of improving build, test and packaging pipelines. An early career in test automation and networked systems gives him an uncommon focus on measurable reliability and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Academia de Studii Economice BucurestiPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, French, Romanian
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Github Skills (56)
unit-testing10
nuget10
azuread10
javascript10
back-end-development10
sonarqube10
msbuild10
azure-sdk10
openid-connect10
testing10
net10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dotnet10
typescript10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-dotnet
May 2018 - Nov 2022
ADAL authentication libraries for .net
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 11 reviews, 331 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bogdan's commits focus on improving the build and packaging process, specifically by introducing support for NuGet packaging using the MSBuild pack target and optimizing the build process with related optimizations. They also added a script to detect missing components and updated build configurations, indicating responsibilities in build automation. Furthermore, the user made changes to C# project files, suggesting familiarity with the .NET ecosystem and library development, further indicating back-end development.
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AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for .NET
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 3306 reviews, 678 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Bogdan appears to be primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET. They refactored the authority component to remove dependencies on ServiceBundle, and also added support for serialization of key identifiers (keyId) and token types. Their work also involved adding support for a signing credentials-based PoP implementation, and handling a fix related to the implementation of the /organizations endpoint for the web app.
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