David Chadwick
Managing Director at Truetrust Ltd
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Chadwick is a Managing Director and veteran identity and authorization expert with over 20 years of hands-on experience spanning academia, startups and standards bodies. Formerly a Professor of Information Systems Security and now CEO-founder turned product/R&D leader, he commercialized W3C Verifiable Credentials through Verifiable Credentials Ltd and led its Identiproof product after acquisition by Crossword Cybersecurity. He is a co-author of the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model, an invited W3C expert and the UK expert to ISO/ITU-T X.500 and mobile driving license work, blending deep protocol-level knowledge with product delivery. Founder of TrueTrust in 1997, he combines long-standing PKI, LDAP and IAM consultancy experience with academic research in autonomic authorisation and trust management. Based in Stony Stratford, he retains an Emeritus chair at the University of Kent, signaling a rare mix of sustained scholarly influence and commercial execution.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Rastrick Grammar School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
verifiable10
http-api10
representations10
verifiable-credentials10
specification10
verify10
mechanism10
credentials10
trust10
w3c10
workitem10
data-model9
api9
ssi9
security9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
David-Chadwick/vc-data-model
Nov 2022 - May 2024
W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group — VC Data Model and Representations specification
Contributions:27 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
verifiabledata-analyticsfiwarerepresentationsspecification
David-Chadwick/vc-jose-cose
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
Verifiable Credentials Working Group — VC JSON Web Tokens specification
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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