Mitch Lindgren
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMitch Lindgren is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building secure, low-level systems at Microsoft, focused on Windows cryptography, authentication, and key management. He has shipped WPA3 Hash-to-Element support for Wi‑Fi 6 certification, helped port SymCrypt to Linux and prepared it for FIPS readiness, and designed isolated key management in Virtual Secure Mode for Windows Hello for Business. Comfortable in C and C++ with Python tooling, he combines deep cryptographic engineering with practical test and tooling experience dating back to kernel-mode test drivers and web app work during a long internship. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed memory leaks and added high-level image transformation APIs to the Wand ImageMagick Python binding, showing attention to both security-sensitive systems and developer ergonomics. Based in Redmond, he prefers roles outside crypto/Web3 and quantitative trading, bringing steady delivery and mentorship in complex, security-critical projects.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, First Class Honours, Industrial Internship Program, Computing Science, Bachelor of Science, First Class Honours, Industrial Internship Program, Computing Science at University of AlbertaComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
ctypes10
imagemagick10
api10
apidoc10
python10
wand10
debugging6
xcode6
objective-c6
dictionary6
android6
iphone6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
emcconville/wand
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
The ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 27 days
Contributions summary:Mitch primarily contributed to the `wand` library's API and functionality, specifically related to the `MagickTransformImage` function. They implemented the necessary argument and return type definitions for the function within the `api.py` file. Further contributions included creating a high-level interface for image transformation within the `image.py` module, along with the associated unit tests. Additionally, they fixed memory leaks and documentation inconsistencies in the codebase.
pythonctypessiftimage-processingimagemagick
mlindgren/blog
Sep 2015 - Aug 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
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