Vittorio Bertocci
Redmond
Vittorio Bertocci is Principal Program Manager in the Windows Azure Active Directory team at Microsoft, where he looks after Developer Experience: WIF, ADAL, ACS, Azure AD, and lots of other things he can’t tell you about.
Vittorio joined the product team after years as a virtual member, as Principal Architect Evangelist, contributing to the inception and launch of Microsoft’s claims-based platform (WIF & ADFS 2.0). He owned SaaS & identity evangelism and drove initiatives such as the Identity Developer Training Kit, the IdElement show and many samples, demos and utilities.
Vittorio holds a master degree in Computer Science, and began his career doing research on computational geometry and scientific visualization. In 2001 he Joined Microsoft Italy, where he focused on the nascent field of web services security , becoming a reference at the national and European level.
In 2005 Vittorio moved to Redmond, where he helped to launch the .NET Framework 3.5 by working with Fortune 100 and Global 100 companies on cutting-edge SOA projects based on WCF, WF and CardSpace. He eventually took on the mission of evangelizing claims-based identity into mainstream use. After years working with customers, partners and the community, he decided to contribute back to the product and joined the engineering team.
Vittorio is a regular speaker at conferences such as BUILD, PDC, TechEd and many others. In the last years he spoke about identity in 23 countries and 4 continents.
Vittorio is a published author and wrote many articles & books. He wrote Programming Windows Identity Foundation, is co-author of A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, and Understanding Windows Cardspace.
He is a prominent authority/blogger on identity, Windows Azure, .NET & development: he shares his thoughts at www.CloudIdentity.com.