WHOIAM - Key Persons


Ajith Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Head of Product Management
Ajith Alexander is the founder and Head of Product Management at WhoIAM. Ajith is a Microsoft and AMD veteran with over 15 years of experience in doing enterprise deployments of major technology stacks including Windows, Digital Rights Management, Azure Identity and infrastructure build-outs for server farms. Prior to founding WhoIAM, Ajith ran the Customer Experience Program for Microsoft's Consumer Identity platform (Azure AD B2C) where he worked closely with several Fortune 500 companies to architect and deploy high availability and high-security consumer authentication solutions tailored to local government and regional regulations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Ajith graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 with a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.

Michael Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Lead Software Development Architect
Michael Mitchell is the lead Software Development Architect at WhoIAM. He is also a Microsoft veteran with more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. At Microsoft, Michael worked on several facets of Windows adoption, including building products such as Windows Live OneCare - Microsoft's first antivirus and firewall product for consumer security, as well as the Windows Compatibility Advisor that assesses and remediates issues with devices upgrading to the latest version of Windows. In addition, Michael is the resident web domain registrar guru, having worked at a leading registrar on their core development and test platforms. Michael lives in the Seattle area and is an obsessive tinkerer in his spare time, with projects ranging from developing software for the open source community to creating out-of-the-box solutions for auto repairs.