Manigandan Balachandran
Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolManigandan Balachandran is a Senior Technical Program Manager with eight years of experience driving secure developer experiences and DevSecOps at Microsoft, currently embedded in the AI Transformation Office. He specializes in Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), tooling automation, and governance to reduce risk and earn customer trust across large-scale commercial engineering orgs. His background spans hands-on Azure DevOps and App Center work as a Premier Field Engineer and Technical Advisor, where he helped enterprise customers modernize CI/CD and cloud adoption. Manigandan combines technical depth with program leadership—running SDL programs, threat modeling, and compliance across hundreds of tools and services. He also brings product-facing empathy from support and customer success roles that improved operational metrics and developer adoption. Based in Dublin, he pairs security-first program strategy with practical automation to measurably improve developer velocity and integrity.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 8.8, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 8.8 at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research AcademyKellogg School of Management
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (28)
visual-studio-app-center10
build-script9
visual-studio9
abap9
powerplatform8
git-client8
appcenter8
powerapps8
dataverse8
model-driven8
microsoft7
powershell5
sap5
expressjs5
git4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manb-msft/appcenter-build-scripts-examples
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
A collection of build script examples to be used in the Build service of https://appcenter.ms
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
bazelstarlarkappcenterbuild-scriptbuild-automation
manb-msft/DevOps-Samples
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Disclaimer : the samples are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
javascriptnodejsexpressexpressjs
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