Michael Yagley
Principal Group Engineering Manager, Azure Security at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Yagley is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Seattle with 14 years of experience building cloud-native and IoT systems, currently leading Azure Security at Microsoft. He has driven architecture and delivery for Azure IoT Edge and the broader Azure IoT platform, combining hands-on backend contributions to the open-source iotedge project with senior leadership roles. As a former co-founder and CTO of TempoIQ, he brings entrepreneurial product sensibility and deep expertise in large-scale sensor data, real-time analytics, and embedded systems. Known for breaking complex distributed projects into maintainable subprojects and interfaces, he bridges low-level device code and cloud management services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who moves smoothly between coding, architecture, and team leadership while keeping security and operational reliability front and center.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at University of MichiganMaster of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Michigan-Dearborn
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 289 commits, 298 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on implementing the foundational structure for the IoT Edge OSS project, specifically the agent and local IoT Hub modules. They broke down the project into subprojects, set up directory structures, and introduced initial code within the util project. They also added features to the management service to add module details. Additionally, the user was involved in creating the necessary code for the http module.
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tempodb/tempodb-python
Feb 2012 - Oct 2013
Python client for TempoDB
Contributions:61 commits in 1 year 7 months
python
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