Welcome

Thanks for visiting. Here you'll find my blog, articles, training courses, and information about upcoming speaking engagements.

I'm a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft Identity Engineering based in New York City. My areas of expertise include Cybersecurity, particularly focusing on identity and access management. Over the past 15 years, I have worked across the globe in various roles both inside and outside Microsoft -- including Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft HQ in Redmond and Senior Consultant at Microsoft, New York. I have also lived and worked in Singapore, UAE, and France mainly working as a software developer.

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Books

Over the years I have authored many articles and co-authored two technical books. You can find the list of selected publications here

Programming Microsoft's Cloud SharePoint Best Practices

 

Latest

  • Podcast: Security Patterns For Client-Side Apps Running In The Browser
    Great to have Dr. Philippe De Ryck on the podcast. He talked about various security challenges faced by developers while working with client-side applications. Do you know the security considerations ...
  • Podcast | R3’s Corda platform
    In this podcast, I talk to Austin from R3 talks about technical aspects of R3 Corda including its architecture, consensus, programming model, etc. We also touch upon the future direction of R3 Corda ...
  • Part II – Kubernetes DevOps : Introduction to Helm
    This is the second post in a multi-part blog series on Kubernetes DevOps using Azure. I am co-authoring this series with the help of my colleague at Microsoft, Daniel Selman. We recently worked on ...
  • Part I – Kubernetes DevOps : Introduction to the Historic Events Microservice
    This is the first post in a multi-part blog series on Kubernetes DevOps using Azure. I am co-authoring this series with the help of my colleague at Microsoft, Daniel Selman. We recently worked on the ...
  • Building and Running an Auditing Solution on Blockchain
    On 21st February, I will be conducting an event at Microsoft NYC campus on building and running a fully functional blockchain based audit trail application. The first half is a good fit for both ...
  • Understanding R3 Corda and Running it on Azure
    R3 Corda is a blockchain-inspired distributed ledger technology (DLT) from R3 that is specifically designed for financial and regulated transactions, and emphasizes privacy and security between ...
  • Homomorphic Encryption 101
    I was recently exploring methods for improved privacy using various encryption schemes and stumbled upon Homomorphic Encryption that has a huge potential  in that area. I do feel that it has higher ...
  • Creating Developer’s Docker Linux Virtual Machine on Azure
    For an upcoming developer event on Docker I had to create handful of Linux Ubuntu virtual machines on Azure with Docker and few additional software installed on it. I looked into couple of ways to to ...
  • Event Announcement “Blockchain 101 – Introduction for Developers”
    Some of you may already be aware that I host NYC MS Cloud User Group technology meet up every month at Microsoft Manhattan campus.This month, I will be hosting/presenting alongside with my colleague ...
  • DevOps with Containers
    Recently I did a video series for Microsoft Channel9 on DevOps with Containers (thanks to Lex Thomas and Chris Caldwell for recording these). The idea was simple- show and tell how container ...