Ian Glazer
Head Of Continuous Identity Product Strategy
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Glazer is a seasoned identity and product strategy leader with over two decades shaping enterprise identity, privacy, and access governance programs across vendors, analyst firms, and standards bodies. Currently Head of Continuous Identity Product Strategy at CrowdStrike, he has led large-scale identity initiatives at Salesforce and built professional communities and certification programs as the founder of IDPro and the Digital Identity Advancement Foundation. Ian blends hands-on engineering experience—contributing backend registration handlers and TDD-style tests to identity training modules—with executive experience in M&A, product marketing, and analyst relations. He repeatedly launches industry-first efforts, from multi-cloud MFA deployments to a professional association that grew to 1,000+ members. Based in Washington, DC, he advises startups and runs a consultancy that helps organizations mature product-driven identity capabilities. Colleagues know him as a prolific speaker, mentor, and connector who turns complex identity standards into practical product outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Artificial Science, BS Artificial Science at The University of EdinburghBAS Computer Science, BAS Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (8)
authentication10
user-authentication10
apex10
salesforce10
rest-api3
api-rest3
restful-api3
api-design3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
salesforceidentity/IdentityTrail-Module3
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Materials to help you complete the Salesforce Identity Trail Module 3 on External Identity
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the development of a registration handler and associated tests for a Salesforce Identity Trail module. The commits focus on implementing the `SimpleFacebookRegistrationHandler` and `Module3RegistrationHandler` classes, including methods for creating, updating, and validating user data. They also added test classes and test methods to ensure the registration handler's proper functioning, demonstrating the use of test-driven development. The user integrated logic to handle community users and internal users.
salesforcemodule-3identitytrail
salesforceidentity/InstagramAuthProvider
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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