Josh Brown-white
Principal Security Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Brown-white is a Principal Security Engineering Manager based in the Greater Seattle Area with over a decade of experience designing and operationalizing secure development practices at scale. At Microsoft he has led strategy and engineering for secure product development—shaping static and dynamic analysis, evolving the SDL for Agile and continuous delivery, and advising on security-related standards and regulations. His background spans hands-on security testing and tool development to enterprise program design, giving him a rare combination of deep technical fluency and program-level influence. He has driven security for a wide range of products—from Windows and Azure to mobile platforms and major acquisitions—helping teams translate threat models into practical mitigations. Colleagues know him for rooting security improvements in engineering fundamentals and for advocating features and process changes that measurably reduce risk. He brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented view of how developer workflows, language/platform choices, and tooling interact to create (and prevent) software vulnerabilities.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (36)
visual-studio-code10
visual-studio-code-extension10
ide-plugin10
electron10
sdl10
typescript10
editor10
security10
visual-studio-extension10
vscode10
linter10
linting10
codeql9
microsoft9
uwp8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/DevSkim-VSCode-Plugin
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
DevSkim plugin for VS Code.
Contributions:139 commits, 29 PRs, 123 pushes in 3 years
vscode
joshbw/Rando-utilities
Sep 2019 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 7 months
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