David Renaud
Technical Lead at Okta
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Renaud is a Technical Lead based in Waterloo, Ontario with four years of professional software engineering experience and a steady progression from co-op roles to lead engineering at Okta. He has worked across security-focused and infrastructure teams at companies like Okta, Arctic Wolf, GEOTAB, and BlackBerry, blending hands-on development with technical leadership in identity and cybersecurity contexts. Known for moving quickly between roles early in his career, he brings practical experience shipping backend systems and infrastructure software in production environments. David pairs formal computer science education with a track record of mentoring and delivering reliable solutions at scale, and he thrives at the intersection of developer productivity and secure platform engineering. An early start in retail tech support and sales gives him a user-focused perspective that informs pragmatic design and troubleshooting.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Technology Diploma Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Information Technology Diploma Mathematics and Computer Science at Lethbridge PolytechnicBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Lethbridge
English
Github Skills (18)
ietf10
web-token10
jsonwebtoken10
assertion9
json9
idp9
nodejs9
oauth9
spid8
identity-provider8
saml7
des7
xml6
decryption5
javascript4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
david-renaud-okta/node-jsonwebtoken
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
JsonWebToken implementation for node.js http://self-issued.info/docs/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token.html
Contributions:26 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
jsonwebtokennode-jstokenjson-web-tokenweb-token
auth0/node-saml
Feb 2022 - May 2022
SAML assertion creation for node
Contributions:2 releases, 13 reviews, 7 commits in 3 months
idpsaml-assertionspidsaml2identity-provider
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