Johannes Passing
Staff Technical Solutions Consultant, Cloud Solutions Architects Americas at Google
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJohannes Passing is a Staff Technical Solutions Consultant at Google Cloud with 12 years of experience helping global customers secure identities and resources through pragmatic IAM architectures and best practices. He blends deep technical expertise in cloud identity with a background in software architecture and lean delivery, informed by an M.Sc. from Hasso Plattner Institute and certifications including Professional Cloud Architect, ITILv3 and PRINCE2. Over nearly a decade at Google across EMEA, APAC and the Americas he has shaped enterprise identity strategies while authoring widely used security guidance and maintaining open-source projects. Johannes contributes to notable projects such as GoogleCloudPlatform/iap-desktop, where he implemented core backend features enabling zero-trust RDP/SSH access, showing his hands-on approach to secure tooling. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who moves effortlessly between high-level strategy and low-level implementation, favoring auditable, secure solutions that scale. Based in Melbourne, he brings a pragmatic European engineering pedigree to global cloud security challenges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Software Engineering, M.Sc. Software Engineering at Hasso Plattner InstituteAbitur, Abitur at Bischof Neumann Schule, Königstein/Taunus
German, English
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Github Skills (19)
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
google-cloud-platform9
linux9
rdp9
windows9
google-oauth9
powershell8
google-compute-engine6
com-interop6
driver6
google-drive-api6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/iap-desktop
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
IAP Desktop is a Windows application that provides zero-trust Remote Desktop and SSH access to Linux and Windows VMs on Google Cloud.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 734 commits, 2849 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Johannes focused on implementing core functionality within the IAP Desktop application. Their work included renaming trace sources, adding build configurations, and modifying existing application views and classes. They also added new features to the application, like allowing users to specify the RDP network level authentication (NLA).
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GoogleCloudPlatform/gce-license-tracker
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Tracks VM and sole-tenant node usage for the purpose of license reporting
Contributions:3 releases, 5 commits, 48 PRs in 1 month
compute-enginetenantwindowsreportingpurpose
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