Nicole Bates
Principal Technical Program Manager @ Microsoft | Open Source Security | Supply Chain Security
- Role
- Principal Technical Program Manager - Azure Office of the CTO at Microsoft
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nicole Bates
I work at the intersection of software supply chain security, open source ecosystems, and industry standards, with a focus on turning emerging requirements into interoperable, operational solutions. At Microsoft, I lead cross‑company efforts on signing, attestation, and transparency to help organizations understand and verify where software comes from, how it was built, and whether it can be trusted. My work bridges product teams, research, legal, and policy stakeholders to ensure technical approaches align with real‑world regulatory and ecosystem needs, including the EU Cyber Resilience Act. I’m deeply engaged in standards and open source communities shaping the future of supply chain trust. I co‑chair the OpenSSF ORBIT Launchpad SIG, helping manufacturers operationalize existing security tools and map them to regulatory obligations, and I contribute to multiple OpenSSF working groups focused on interoperability and tooling. In the IETF, I’m an active contributor to the SCITT working group, helping drive specifications and demos for interoperable transparency services used to publish and verify signed statements about software and AI artifacts. Across these efforts, my focus is pragmatic: move supply chain security from theory to practice in ways that scale across vendors, ecosystems, and industries.
Experience
Principal Technical Program Manager - Azure Office of the CTO
Nov 2021 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
2025 - Current: Technical Principal Program Manager Azure Office of the CTO - supply chain security, open source, standards, transparency systems. 20••••25: Entra Principal Product Manager - measuring e2e developer experience.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree, Economics, French
Seattle Pacific University
Masters of Arts Teaching
Skills
- Government
- Risk Management
- Intrusion Detection
- Team Leadership
- Information Security
- Program Management
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Nist
- Management
- Cloud Computing
- Security Audits
- Software Development
- Security
- Enterprise Architecture
- Security Clearance
- Sdlc
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