Patrick Huff
Principal Group Program Manager - Azure Government at Microsoft
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Huff is a seasoned Microsoft technology leader with over a decade of experience driving program and product strategy for Azure Government and Windows Azure. As a Principal Group Program Manager and long-tenured senior director, he blends deep cloud program management with hands-on developer sensibilities to deliver secure, compliant cloud services for government customers. He has a practical engineering background—evident from contributions to the widely used Azure AD .NET IdentityModel extensions—where he improved debugging clarity and logging robustness for downstream developers. Based in Austin with a business degree from the University of Oklahoma, Patrick pairs commercial acumen with technical rigor to translate complex requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions. Colleagues describe him as a builder who navigates large organizations to align product, engineering, and compliance priorities while still engaging in code-level improvements.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Business at University of Oklahoma - Price College of BusinessBusiness, Business at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (8)
net10
asp-net10
error-handling10
logging10
dotnet10
exception-handling10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-identitymodel-extensions-for-dotnet
May 2016 - Jan 2017
IdentityModel extensions for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 64 PRs, 106 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Patrick focused on enhancing the robustness and maintainability of the .NET IdentityModel extensions library. They implemented more informative exception messages, adding argument names to `ArgumentOutOfRangeException` errors for improved debugging. Furthermore, they refactored the code to leverage `nameof()` for parameter names and updated the use of `LogHelper` methods to enhance logging, including integrating assembly version information. These changes collectively improve the clarity and resilience of the library.
dotnetidentitymodel
polita/politaLearnsGit
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
git-commands
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