Michael Brown
Technical Lead at Cisco
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brown is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building secure, high-scale authentication systems and full-stack products from mobile clients to cloud services. Based in Philadelphia, he currently leads Duo Security's Core Authentication team at Cisco, unifying MFA, SSO, and passwordless flows with a TypeScript/React frontend and multi-service Python backend. He has driven product launches from inception to GA—most notably Duo Push for Passwordless and WebAuthn-based SSO—while designing frameworks that emphasize dependency injection, inversion of control, and OpenAPI-driven contracts for maintainability and testability. Michael pairs hands-on engineering (iOS, Python, Kubernetes on AWS) with cross-organizational architecture leadership, patent-backed innovation in mobile/passwordless auth, and mentoring that scales team capability. He has a proven record of improving release velocity and reliability through automation, feature flagging, and observability tooling. His background in consumer-grade mobile UX and low-level systems gives him an uncommon ability to bridge polished client experiences with robust, auditable security infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science Major, Program in Entrepreneurial Studies, BSE, Computer Science Major, Program in Entrepreneurial Studies at University of Michigan
Github Skills (25)
duo-security9
swift8
api8
api-client8
animation8
render7
api-security7
cocoapods6
bodymovin6
ios-library6
security6
ios6
vector5
after-effects4
ios-animation4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
duosecurity/duo_api_swift
Feb 2017 - Oct 2020
Duo Security API Client for Swift
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 8 months
api-clientcocoapodsapisecurityapi-security
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