Nicholas Brown
Lead Engineer at Mimic
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Brown is a Lead Engineer in Seattle with nine years of security-focused software experience and a long tenure at Microsoft working across Azure AD, Forefront, and C+AI security teams. He blends deep cloud/native engineering with applied cybersecurity expertise, contributing to the Azure SDK for .NET—improving AppAuthentication, managed identity support, and local dev tooling. Now at Mimic, he’s tackling emergent threats from ransomware and adversarial AI, translating research-grade ideas into production-ready defenses. Known for pragmatic refactors and reliability-first fixes, he pairs hands-on backend development with a systems view of cloud identity and platform security. A UCLA-trained computer engineer, he brings both institutional-scale product experience and a taste for solving hard, fast-evolving attack surface problems.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
German, Japanese, English
Github Skills (14)
net10
asp-net10
authentication10
user-authentication10
azure10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
csharp10
azure-sdk10
dotnet-core10
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 13 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on enhancing the AppAuthentication library within the .NET Azure SDK. Their contributions included implementing improvements to the MsiAccessTokenProvider, such as using the IDMS endpoint for authentication. They also addressed bug fixes, added support for user-assigned managed identities, and updated the release notes. Further work involved refactoring and adding new features, including improvements for local development token request times and support for CancellationTokens.
azureazure-sdkdotnetmicrosoftc-sharp
Azure-Samples/linuxvm-msi-keyvault-arm-dotnet
May 2018 - Aug 2019
.NET Core sample that shows how to programmatically call Azure Services from an Azure Linux VM with a Managed Service Identity.
Contributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
azureazure-servicesdotnetlinux
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