Brian Golden
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Golden is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building secure, scalable services for Azure, currently focused on role- and attribute-based access control in Azure Active Directory. At Microsoft he has worked across Azure Data Factory and Core Security Services, contributing to authentication, encryption, and service-to-service security platforms that underpin core Azure infrastructure. He combines backend engineering and test automation—contributing data-driven xUnit tests and refactoring Azure SDKs and PowerShell cmdlets—to improve reliability and maintainability of cloud developer tooling. Based in New York, he brings deep practical experience shipping SDKs and microservices while driving security design within product teams. Notably, his open-source work on high-profile repos like azure-sdk-for-net and azure-powershell shows a commitment to enterprise-grade developer experiences and rigorous testing of JSON-driven integrations.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Bachelors of Science at Penn State University
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Github Skills (21)
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factory10
net10
dotnet10
azure-data-factory10
microsoft-azure10
xunit10
asp-net10
azure-powershell10
sdk10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
azure10
csharp10
test-automation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:57 commits, 46 PRs, 50 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the project by implementing data-driven tests using xUnit and focusing on the DataFactory modules. They enhanced the test suite by employing `Theory` and `ClassData` attributes for efficient data-driven testing of various JSON sample collections. Their work involved modifications to existing unit tests, including validation of JSON consts, properties, and handling of edge cases, as well as testing type registrations.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
Azure/azure-powershell
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on refactoring and updating the Azure PowerShell cmdlets for Data Factory. Their contributions involved renaming classes and updating SDK references to align with newer versions. They also addressed bug fixes related to the SDK and removed a 'published' property, indicating ongoing maintenance and improvements to the Data Factory commands.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
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