Chris Brooks
Group Product Manager at Confluent
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Brooks is a seasoned product leader with 11+ years focused on developer platforms, identity, and security across cloud-scale systems. Currently a Group Product Manager at Confluent, he drives the security charter for a multi-cloud real-time data streaming platform after shaping foundational authorization services at Microsoft Azure. At Microsoft he architected Azure RBAC enhancements, pioneered Federated Credentials for Managed Identity enabling credential-free workloads across clouds, and modernized storage authentication and event-driven capabilities. Comfortable at the intersection of product, security, and developer experience, he has a track record of turning complex enterprise and partner requirements into practical, least-privilege solutions. Based in Redmond, he blends deep hands-on engineering roots with strategic product leadership and a pragmatic obsession for developer-friendly APIs. An industrial engineering graduate from Georgia Tech, he pairs systems thinking with operational rigor to scale secure platforms.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Industrial Engineering Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (52)
microsoft10
command-line-interface10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
protected9
azure-cli9
microsoft-identity-platform9
microsoft-identity9
sdk9
vocabulary9
cli9
x129
azure-ad-b2c8
odata8
authentication8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cbrooksmsft/vocabularies
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
vocabularydefinitionsodata
OData/vocabularies
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
OData vocabulary definitions and usage
Contributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
vocabularydefinitionsodata
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