Gregory Van Ort
Redmond
Summary
Software Engineer II at Microsoft, specializing in scalable identity provider solutions within Azure Active Directory B2C. Seeking to deepen interdisciplinary expertise in biomedical AI to drive impactful innovation in clinical decision-making, and precision medicine.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer II
Microsoft
Redmond
05.2024 - Current
- Architected Entra ExternalID 3P Web Application Firewall API's for creation and verification of WAF providers on domains used for Entra ExternalID, preventing common DDOS and security vulnerabilities.
- Architected and developed the Entra ExternalID SelfServiceSignUp Admin logs cloud infrastructure pipeline, optimizing for extensibility, maintainability, and modularity to streamline 18 regional deployments.
- Developed and automated key management infrastructure, reducing rotation practices from months to at max 7 days, to enhance security and reliability during critical key rotation processes.
- Led a multi-week investigation into networking layer discrepancies, identifying and resolving daily networking exhaustion issues, improving service reliability to 99.99%.
- Software Engineer II at Microsoft, specializing in scalable identity solutions within Azure Active Directory B2C. Passionate about applying AI to healthcare, inspired by initiatives like Project Hanover and Dragon Copilot.
Software Engineer
Microsoft
03.2022 - 05.2024
- Spearheaded S500 customer and service reliability enhancements by addressing Azure FrontDoor integration issues with stakeholders, reducing max api call times by 15 seconds.
- Executed thorough threat modeling to optimize B2C's state machine and cookie orchestration, uncovering and addressing critical cookie vulnerabilities to strengthen service security.
- Refactored core service architecture to eliminate 60-80 million dropped or invalid requests per month, significantly enhancing system performance and resource optimization.
- Rearchitected an existing synthetic testing service to integrate Security First Initiative compliant Edge resources and drivers, removing the need for developer interaction and intervention.
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
05.2021 - 08.2021
- Developed RFC 6749 based OAuth2.0 grant flows with custom claim functionality for use in business to consumer JWT token retrieval, averaging 5,000,000+ consumers.
- Leveraged end to end Cloud Testing and Integration Testing for region specific data center diagnostics.
Software Engineering Intern
Amazon
06.2020 - 08.2020
- Architected a micro-service used for migrating 10,000+ products within Amazon services to prevent liquidation and revenue loss by leveraging AWS infrastructure (DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch) for data storage, pruning, service completion notifications, and on-call metrics.
Software Engineering Intern
SCI Solutions (R1 RCM)
11.2018 - 09.2019
- Built APIs and services to modernize HL7 data interactions and remove dependencies within legacy software resulting in 83 percent shorter queue processing time for health insurance claims.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science, Linguistics
University of Colorado At Boulder
Boulder, CO12.2021
Skills
- C#
- Python
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Generative and agentic AI
- RESTful APIs
- OAuth 20
- Microservices architecture
- Security-first design principles
- CI/CD pipelines management
- Cloud infrastructure automation
- Key management strategies
- Synthetic testing methodologies
- Identity management systems
- System architecture design
- Threat modeling techniques
Projects
Generative AI UX for AAD B2C, 03/01/25, 03/01/25, Designed and implemented generative AI UX pipeline, leveraging Microsoft Graph and AAD B2C, to seamlessly translate customer requests like 'create an app registration' into JSON-based Graph API call structures, enabling automated generation of React elements for streamlined user interfaces.
Timeline
Software Engineer II
Microsoft
05.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
Microsoft
03.2022 - 05.2024
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
05.2021 - 08.2021
Software Engineering Intern
Amazon
06.2020 - 08.2020
Software Engineering Intern
SCI Solutions (R1 RCM)
11.2018 - 09.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science, Linguistics
University of Colorado At Boulder