Microsoft will expand its Prague development center, which already employs over a thousand people, with another interesting project. The platform and infrastructure for Microsoft’s identity services is starting to develop in the Czech Republic. It is intended to cover products such as Office 365, Xbox Live, Outlook.com and a number of others – all of which use online sign-in. Microsoft has a name for multicloud identity Goes into.
The team is still small and starting to build. According to Lupa’s information, however, it should grow quite a lot. Units within the organization called “Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management” are to be created.
He leads these teams Vojtěch Vondra, his official title is Principal Group Engineering Manager. Before joining Microsoft, he led product development at the Czech startup Productboard, which became a unicorn and laid off about a fifth of its people at the end of last year.
In domestic R&D, Microsoft develops technologies such as Skype, Teams, Dynamics, Azure and others. There was also a team focused on Windows on ARM chips.
Czechs are relatively well represented in the headquarters in Redmond. Ales Holeček recently promoted and from the position of Corporate Vice President leads the Office division.
