Bryan Knox
Software Developer & Consultant at Independent
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorBryan Knox is an Azure App Modernization Consultant with over 20 years of hands-on software development and technical leadership experience, now focused on helping teams modernize applications for cloud-native deployment on Azure. He combines deep Microsoft-stack expertise (C#, .NET, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB) with proven skills in architecture, DevOps, and process improvement to deliver scalable, distributed systems across industries from film production to medical and finance. Bryan has led globally distributed teams, driven digital transformation and refactoring efforts, and built resilient pipelines and event-driven systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Azure messaging patterns. Comfortable both coding and coaching, he routinely authors technical documentation and improves team onboarding, quality, and delivery practices. Based in Long Beach, CA, he brings a rare blend of product-line thinking and low-level systems experience—having shipped desktop CAD/CAM and video-logging systems early in his career—so he can translate legacy constraints into pragmatic modernization roadmaps.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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670reputation
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Github Skills (31)
openid-connect10
azure-functions10
authorization-server10
jwt10
arm10
powershell10
facebook9
microsoft-azure9
http9
azure9
microsoft8
tfs6
visual-studio6
asp-net-identity6
asp-net-mvc6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bryanknox/AzureFunctionsOpenIDConnectAuthSample
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
A sample that shows how to protect access to an API implemented as an HTTP triggered Azure Function where the authorization server supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocols.
Contributions:72 commits, 46 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 years 7 months
authorization-serverazure-functionsopenid-connectopenidconnectoidc
bryanknox/k0x-workbench
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
Windows desktop app for fast context switching and invocation of context specific tools and scripts
Contributions:4 reviews, 32 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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