Ed Johns
Architect at Okta
Stayton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Johns is an experienced architect and former principal engineer with nine years of recent hands-on experience at Okta and a long tenure at Microsoft driving security, identity, and Windows Server features. He led design and implementation of major authentication and federation services across multiple Windows releases, building credential provisioning, ADFS, MFA frameworks, and administrative UIs. Comfortable from individual contributor work to cross-team coordination, he has repeatedly owned end-to-end features from spec through ship and test automation. Based in Stayton, Oregon, he pairs deep protocol and platform expertise with a pragmatic focus on deployable solutions. Although retired from commercial software development, his career shows an uncommon combination of historical perspective (Stanford degrees spanning history and computational statistics) and modern identity systems craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, History, Bachelor's Degree, History at Stanford University
English
Stackoverflow
201reputation
18kreached
2answers
13questions
Github Skills (11)
css10
okta10
authentication10
callback6
boost-asio6
json6
http6
afnetworking6
eclipse6
websocket6
network-programming6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
oktadev/okta-blog-archive
Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
Okta Developer Blog
Contributions:9 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
developer-oktaoktadeveloper-blog
okta/okta-developer-docs
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
okta-developer-docs
Contributions:15 reviews, 13 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 5 months
developer-oktaokta
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