David Turner
Retired at Voltage Gate LLC
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Turner is a retired technology leader and standards expert with nearly three decades of experience shaping identity, security, privacy, and mobile technologies across industry and international standards bodies. He founded Voltage Gate to help organizations influence standards by translating product strategy into effective standards engagement, and previously led standards programs at Microsoft and the FIDO Alliance where he drove password-free authentication and cloud identity interoperability. Known for diplomacy and consensus-building, he has chaired and edited standards work in ISO, ITU-T, OASIS, W3C, NFC Forum and OMA, balancing business, technical and regulatory demands to create long-term value. Based in Washington, he combines deep technical fluency (XML, web services, mobile, NFC) with legal and corporate affairs experience, and a knack for turning provocative technical ideas into pragmatic specifications. An understated but telling detail: his career blends hands-on product incubation and cross-company coalition building, not just policy advocacy.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng. Sci, EE, B. Eng. Sci, EE at Western University
Github Skills (15)
authentication10
api10
credentials10
public-key10
webauthn10
preprocessor9
fido8
tla6
documentation5
tlaplus4
security3
w3c3
privacy2
certification1
information-sharing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fido-alliance/credential-exchange-feedback
Jun 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 17 pushes, 17 branches in 4 months
dturnerx/VG-ConsentReceipts
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
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