Scott Cantor
Scott Cantor is a former web applications developer who learned that working on security software didn't involve designing user interfaces and immediately changed jobs. He designed his first Web Single Sign-On system in 1997 and joined the Shibboleth Project in its formative stages in 2001. He became one of the project architects and led the initial design and implementation work; today he maintains the libraries and code base that make up the Service Provider software.
During his tenure with the project, he has worked extensively on the OASIS SAML standard and did most of the technical editing of the SAML 2.0 specifications.
He splits his time between the Shibboleth Consortium, InCommon Federation, Internet2 Middleware activities, and a day job running the SSO infrastructure for the Ohio State University.
His cat is not impressed by any of this.
Daniel Fisher
Daniel joined Virginia Tech in the year 2000 as an application analyst in the Web Application Research and Development department. There 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. Daniel contributed to the development of the version 2 Shibboleth IDP and supports several open source Java libraries related to password management and LDAP integration. He lives in the mountains of southwest Virginia with his family.
Brent Putman
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 1990's. 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.
Rod Widdowson
With over 20 years of experience developing operating system and file system software, Rod started as a contributor to, and then developer for, the Shibboleth project in 2005. Initially Rod concentrated on Discovery, maintaining and developing the Central Discovery Service and authoring the Embedded Discovery Service. He continues this work but also and mostly acts as a Java programmer for OpenSAML and IdP projects. Additionally Rod also writes and supports the windows installers. Rod lives in Scotland and runs a small independent consultancy company specialising in software architecture and development of file system & other security systems. In addition to Shibboleth development, Rod is also a contributor to OpenAFS.
Ian Young
Ian Young has worked in the area of systems software (operating systems, compilers and computer networking) for more than three decades. Since 2004, he has worked with the SDSS group at EDINA, a JISC National Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, on the problem of federated identity and federated access management. In that role, he was involved in the establishment of the development 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.
Tom Zeller
Tom believes that privacy preserving identity infrastructures are critical to a free and open Internet.
He is thankful that the Shibboleth project is successful, and is grateful for the opportunity to be part of an experienced and knowledgeable team.
His information technology experience in education began under the guidance of his father, an educator and consultant to school districts near Chicago. This background enabled Tom to work independently to help pay for college, followed by working in grades kindergarten through higher education since before Mosaic. He has developed and managed networks and software interesting to science and education communities. Tom has degrees in Physics, the Integrated Science Program, and Information Technology from Northwestern University.
His non-profit work includes serving on the board of the Swan Conservation Trust, which conserves the hardwood forests and watersheds of the remaining nearby Highlands. His family is learning how to live sustainably and peacefully in a community in rural Middle Tennessee. Tom is the founder and is a member of Dragonacea, LLC.