Saeed Akhter
Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaeed Akhter is a Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft with over 10 years of experience driving identity and authentication platform work for Azure, currently leading MSAL and authentication middleware within the Microsoft Identity Platform. He blends deep engineering roots (early career as a software developer on Windows Media Player and PlayReady DRM) with modern program leadership across cloud-native identity SDKs and Azure AD B2C. Known for shipping developer-facing authentication libraries and SDKs, he navigates complex security, cross-platform, and developer-experience tradeoffs while applying Agile practices. Based in Redmond, he pairs a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota with hands-on product delivery across distributed systems and developer tooling, demonstrating both technical depth and long-term commitment to platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (66)
authentication10
microsoft-azure10
msal10
single-page-application10
azure10
azure-ad-b2c10
microsoft10
microsoft-authentication10
azure-active-directory10
identity9
uploading9
microsoft-graph9
api-authentication8
api8
rest8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SaeedAkhter-MSFT/microsoft-graph-docs
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Documentation for the Microsoft Graph REST API
Contributions:20 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
apirestmicrosoft-graphgraphmicrosoft
SaeedAkhter-MSFT/authdemoday1
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
Simple Node.js Express App
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
expressjsnode-jsexpressexpress-appnodejs
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