Alex Stuart
Trust & Identity Architect at Jisc
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Stuart is a Trust & Identity Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, operating and supporting SAML-based federations, primarily across the UK education and research sector. He leads third-line technical teams and has been service owner for the UK federation, managing metadata and integration for thousands of entities while building global eduGAIN relationships. Comfortable on Linux webservers and Unix platforms, he implements and customises Shibboleth, simpleSAMLphp and related SAML middleware, and has migrated critical federation services between architectures. His background in information and advice services, accessibility work and project management gives him a pragmatic, user-centred approach to technical leadership. Colleagues know him for blending deep protocol knowledge with operational practicality—introducing test IdPs and discovery-service migrations to reduce risk and speed integrations.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management M865, Project Management M865 at Open UniversityMaster of Advanced Study, Mathematics, pass, Master of Advanced Study, Mathematics, pass at University of CambridgeBSc (hons) first class, Astronomy and Astrophysics, BSc (hons) first class, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (37)
authentication10
simplesamlphp10
aggregator9
saml9
dmp9
metadata9
php9
saml-metadata8
idp8
security8
data-management7
identity-provider7
ruby-on-rails7
planning7
sql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexstuart/MetadataPropagation
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
alexstuart/SAML-metadata-composition
May 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 9 issues in 5 years 4 months
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