John Garland
Principal Software Development Engineer - Xbox Game Studios Developer Services at Microsoft
Cumming, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Garland is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 11+ years of experience building cloud-first architectures and developer services, currently enabling Xbox Game Studios projects at Microsoft. He brings deep Azure and Identity/Access Management expertise from leadership roles in Industry Solutions Engineering and prior senior consulting and training positions at Wintellect, where he authored and taught comprehensive Azure developer curricula. His background spans client and server systems, real-time media and video playback, and migration/modernization efforts dating back to early C++/COM and .NET eras, giving him rare breadth across desktop, server, and cloud platforms. A pragmatic technical leader and instructor, he’s comfortable moving between hands-on engineering, architecture, and mentoring large teams. Based in Cumming, Georgia, he combines enterprise-scale product delivery experience with a talent for translating complex security and cloud patterns into practical guidance for development teams.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Education (Not completed), Masters of Education (Not completed) at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Florida
English, Spanish
Github Skills (100)
identity10
authentication10
microsoft-azure10
netcore10
msal10
maui10
dotnet10
msal-js10
azure10
azure-ad-b2c10
agile10
csharp10
microsoft10
uwp10
microsoft-authentication10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
John-Garland/vscode-applicationregistrations
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
A Visual Studio Code extension to manage Azure Application Registrations.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 7 days
John-Garland/Sample-Gateway-Token-Validation
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Sample content to demonstrate the use of Azure API Management as an API gateway and different options for how user tokens can be handled through the gateway
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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