Dan Fiedler
Senior Security Program Manager at Microsoft
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDan Fiedler is a senior security program manager and software engineering leader with a decade-plus track record building and shipping application security products and programs. He’s led engineering teams at Contrast Security and JupiterOne and now drives security initiatives at Microsoft, combining hands-on .NET agent development with roadmap and process leadership. His background spans application security testing, instrumentation, and modernizing legacy codebases (ASP.NET → ASP.NET Core, GraphQL, Azure Functions, K8s), improving maintainability and delivery velocity. Dan is equally comfortable mentoring remote teams, designing secure systems, and working directly with customers to troubleshoot and deploy security tooling. Based in Chapel Hill, he brings a craftsman’s focus on engineering quality and practical security outcomes informed by graduate study in computer science. An understated strength is his history of turning research-grade security techniques into robust, production-ready agents and developer workflows.
2 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Allegheny CollegeMaster's, Computer Science, Master's, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (29)
nuget10
visual-studio-code-extension10
static-analysis10
ide-plugin10
bzip10
zip-archive10
sdl10
vmdk10
security-scanner10
security10
recursion10
visual-studio-extension10
code-analyzer10
linter10
linting10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
danfiedler-msft/pinact
Jul 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 push, 5 branches in 1 day
microsoft/DevSkim
Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
DevSkim is a set of IDE plugins, language analyzers, and rules that provide security "linting" capabilities.
Contributions:28 reviews, 21 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 4 months
ide-pluginlintingsecuritysdllinter
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