Mudassir Ali
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMudassir Ali is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience designing and shipping enterprise and cloud identity solutions, currently leading Decentralized Identity Services for Microsoft Entra Verified ID in Azure. He blends hands-on full-stack development and startup founder grit with large-scale platform engineering, having built a SaaS reservations system and owned complex Office 365 and ADFS integrations. Mudassir has repeatedly delivered security-sensitive services—designing device registration protocols, TPM-backed client crypto, and certificate-based web APIs—while coordinating cross-group teams to meet performance and scalability goals. Based in Redmond, he pairs deep protocol and cloud expertise with practical product focus, often taking sole ownership of critical integrations that bridge legacy enterprise systems and modern cloud platforms.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Urdu, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
reference-implementation10
decentralized-identifiers10
overlay10
specification10
blockchain9
identity9
verifiable-credentials9
bitcoin9
decentralized-applications2
tax1
ssi1
decentralized-identity1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
decentralized-identity/sidetree
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Sidetree Specification and Reference Implementation
Contributions:7 reviews, 43 commits, 86 PRs in 11 months
decentralized-identifiersdidsidetreespecificationverifiable-credentials
decentralized-identity/ion
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
The Identity Overlay Network (ION) is a DID Method implementation using the Sidetree protocol atop Bitcoin
Contributions:15 commits, 20 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 months
didoverlay-networksidetreemethodblockchain
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