James Brotsos
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Brotsos is a Principal Product Manager with 11 years of product and engineering experience who blends deep hands-on software engineering roots with product, technical sales, and teaching. Currently focused on Developer Experience and DevOps security at Microsoft Defender for Cloud, he previously led product for Checkmarx’s application security testing platform, driving integrations and developer-centric security workflows. Customer-obsessed and results-driven, he applies a "break it and fix it" mentality to automate and simplify security tooling for developers. His background includes kernel-level real-time OS work and pre-sales engineering, giving him rare technical credibility across security, systems, and developer tooling. Based in San Francisco with a master’s in computer science, he’s an AI enthusiast who quietly combines creative strategy with pragmatic execution to move complex products from concept to widespread adoption.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science - Network Programming, Master’s Degree Computer Science - Network Programming at DePaul University
English
Github Skills (63)
checkmarx10
security10
sarif9
static-analysis9
cycle9
attestation9
orchestration8
compliance8
maven8
vulnerability-scanners8
health8
wrapping8
circleci8
supply-chain-security8
semgrep8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CxOneOrg/CheckmarxDemo
May 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 7 months
James-AST/CheckmarxSandbox
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:54 PRs, 182 pushes, 32 branches in 8 months
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