Brandon Werner
Principal Product Architect at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Werner is a Principal PM Architect at Microsoft with 13+ years of experience building large-scale cloud and identity platforms, having been employee #18 on the Office365 team and an early contributor to Azure and Azure Active Directory. He helped pioneer Microsoft’s shift toward open source, led backend improvements to key identity libraries like passport-azure-ad/MSAL.js, and presented Graph API work at a BUILD keynote that became Satya Nadella’s first demo as CEO. A startup founder and early web-payments architect, he combines product vision with hands-on engineering across AI, blockchain, and digital identity. Brandon’s unconventional path—from programming Frogger in BASIC as a child to landing his first job at 17 after leaving home—feeds a pragmatic, mission-driven approach to technology. He balances deep technical breadth with eclectic passions in poetry, robotics, microbiology, and spiking neural networks, which inform his systems-thinking and creative problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (15)
nodejs10
passportjs10
azure-active-directory10
saml10
openid-connect10
oauth9
javascript9
testing7
adal6
xcode6
active-directory6
ios6
swift6
azure6
iphone6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/passport-azure-ad
Oct 2013 - May 2019
The code for Passport Azure AD has been moved to the MSAL.js repo. Please open any issues or PRs at the link below.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 142 commits, 86 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements to the core functionality of the Azure AD Passport library. The contributions involved correcting issues related to SAML signature validation and improving the handling of Open ID Connect Bearer strategies. The user implemented non-interactive Open ID Connect Bearer strategy updates. They also addressed bugs and updated unit tests in the code base.
msal-jspassport-azure-ad
Azure-Samples/active-directory-ios-native-nxoauth2-v2
Jun 2016 - May 2018
Demonstrates how you can use a third party library like nxoauth2 to build an iOS application that authenticates Microsoft identity users to our new v2 (converged) identity service and calls a web API using OAuth 2.0 access tokens.
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 10 months
access-tokenios-applicationmicrosoft-identityoauth
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