Michael Fanning
Principal Security Engineering Lead In 1ES at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Fanning is a Principal Security Engineering Lead at Microsoft’s 1ES organization with over a decade of experience building large-scale security tooling and services across the company. He owns code spanning open-source binary analysis clients, plaintext credential detection, and version-control integrated, at-scale scanning systems that surface cross-company security priorities. A long-tenured Microsoft engineer, he previously shaped static analysis, IDE security features, and the SARIF interchange format now a public standard, and helped found development teams internationally. Based in Redmond, he blends deep systems and tooling expertise with practical security operations, and his background in music hints at an unusually creative approach to problem solving and team building.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Music, Bachelor's degree, Music at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (152)
visual-studio-code-extension10
json-schema10
windows10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
portable-executable10
security10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
correctness10
azure-pipelines10
arm10
serverless10
linter10
elf10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sqlskim
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
TSQL Linter and database verifier
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
tsqllinterverifierdatabase
microsoft/jschema
Sep 2017 - May 2022
Includes an implementation of JSON Schema Draft 4, an implementation of JSON pointer, and a JSON-schema-to-C# code generator
Contributions:34 reviews, 34 commits, 56 PRs in 4 years 8 months
c-code-generatorcode-generatorpointerjson-to-schemajson-schema
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