George W
Security Architect at Auth0
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge W is a Security Architect based in Seattle with eight years of hands-on experience securing authentication and federated systems across product and platform teams. He has deep expertise in web/browser security, identity protocols (OAuth2, SAML), token and SSO hardening, and building abuse prevention and security observability for high-scale auth platforms. At Auth0 (now within Okta) he progressed from senior engineer to architect, driving API security, anomaly detection, and security strategy for developer-facing SDKs and directory services. His background includes building identity services at Qualtrics and earlier work on browser media and cloud-accelerated streaming at AWS, giving him a rare blend of protocol-level security and systems performance experience. Known for a “secure all the things” mindset, he pairs academic grounding from Georgia Tech and UT Austin with practical, product-focused threat modeling and protocol hardening.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (103)
authentication10
security10
secrets-detection10
auth0-js10
pkce10
single-page10
owasp10
jwt10
azure-ad-b2c10
openid-connect10
des10
passwords10
xml10
javascript9
secrets9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
auth0/passport-wsfed-saml2
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
passport strategy for both WS-fed and SAML2 protocol
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 6 months
spidauthenticationsaml2passport-strategystrategy
gkwang/test
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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