GeorgeĀ Krechar
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Krechar is a software engineer based in Redmond with 11 years of experience focused on low-level systems programming and cybersecurity. He brings production experience at Microsoft building scalable detection pipelines in Azure Synapse and Databricks, and has contributed backend fixes and new functionality to the widely used AzureAD identity model extensions for .NET. His academic work includes published research on fuzz testing that won the NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper award, and he has a MS and BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. George has a strong track record mentoring and teaching cyber fundamentals through university teams and courses, and he pairs that with hands-on systems work in C/C++ and .NET. Outside engineering he pursues interests in law, politics, and digital media production, which inform a methodical, debate-style approach to security problem solving. He likes to translate research insights into practical, production-grade tooling that improves detection and identity robustness.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of MarylandMontgomery Blair High School
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Github Skills (20)
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identitymodel10
net10
dotnet10
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asp-net10
validating10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
validate10
saml7
netcore6
http-method6
odata6
rest6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-identitymodel-extensions-for-dotnet
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
IdentityModel extensions for .Net
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 174 reviews, 136 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on enhancing the `azuread/azure-activedirectory-identitymodel-extensions-for-dotnet` repository, particularly within the context of token validation and identity model extensions for .Net. Their work involved addressing bugs, refactoring code, and introducing new functionality, such as adding a property bag to the token validation parameters to improve customization, removing unnecessary delegate calls. Moreover, they introduced new classes for encrypted credentials.
dotnetextensionscsharpazure-ad-b2cidentity
GeoK/VibratingStringModelPDE_MPI
Jun 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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