SHIBBOLETH - Key Persons
After a woefully misguided foray into graduate studies of international affairs and the former Soviet Union, Brent began his transformation into a technology geek in the mid 1990s. His introduction into the world of federated security and SAML began at Georgetown as one of the first deployers of the early Shibboleth alpha code for the project's original campus library pilot in 2002. He formally joined the Shibboleth team in early 2006 as a Java developer and contributed substantially to the development of version 2.x of OpenSAML Java, as well as the Identity Provider.
When not working on Shibboleth, he splits his time at Georgetown amongst a variety of middleware and scholarly systems projects.
Job Titles:
- Developer
- Virginia Tech in 2000 As an Application Analyst
Daniel joined Virginia Tech in 2000 as an application analyst in the Web Application Research and Development department where he helped design the campus enterprise directory and first single-sign-on system. His work led him to be Middleware project manager, overseeing the enterprise directory and centralized campus authentication and authorization services. He contributed to the development of version 2 of the Shibboleth IDP and supports several open source Java libraries related to password management and LDAP integration. He currently lives in the mountains of southwest Virginia with his family.
Henri has worked in the field of IdM/IAM technologies since the early 2000s, gaining experience especially in open standards and their open source implementations. He has been involved in multiple industrial and academic projects solving different trust and identity challenges: scope varying from internal Web-SSO systems to global distributed computing platforms. He still enjoys hands-on technical work, (almost) any tasks that full-stack development involves. He formally joined the Shibboleth team in 2019.
After living many years abroad in Switzerland and France, Henri is currently located in Tampere / Finland with his family. His working time is split between a few parallel projects, including freelancing via his own consultancy company.
Ian Young has worked in the area of systems software (operating systems, compilers and computer networking) for nearly four decades. Since 2004, he has worked on the problem of federated identity and federated access management, initially with the SDSS group at EDINA based at the University of Edinburgh. In that role, he was involved in the establishment of the developmental SDSS Federation and its production successor, the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research. He believes that the most successful middleware is both ubiquitous and invisible, and looks forward to federated identity attaining this ideal.