Matt Neely
Principal Security Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Neely is a Principal Security Manager based in Redmond with seven years of focused security engineering and leadership across Microsoft, Facebook, and NYDIG. He combines deep full-stack software experience with hands-on offensive security skills—having done penetration testing and red-teaming—so he speaks both developer and adversary fluently. At Microsoft he has progressed through senior engineering to principal roles, driving secure architecture and incident-resistant systems at scale. His background includes production security at a crypto-focused firm and application security at a major social platform, giving him cross-domain expertise from cloud services to high-risk financial systems. Matt holds advanced study in computer software and a CS undergraduate degree, and he’s known for translating complex security requirements into pragmatic engineering solutions. Notably, his career reflects long-term commitment to Microsoft interleaved with impactful stints in high-security environments, signaling both institutional depth and adaptable threat-focused experience.
6 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Software & Services, Master’s Degree Computer Software & Services at University of Washington TacomaBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Puget Sound
Github Skills (29)
microsoft10
msbuild10
dotnet10
sqf10
build-engine10
visual-studio10
csharp10
filesystem9
sandbox9
netstandard9
kernel9
portability8
cli8
coreclr8
unix8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
maneely/msbuild
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
dotnetbuild-enginemsbuildcsharpmicrosoft
maneely/BuildXL
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Microsoft Build Accelerator
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
acceleratorwindowsmicrosoft
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