Jay Van Der Zant
Identity Architect & Consultant at Strategic Command
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJay Van Der Zant is an enterprise Identity and Security Architect with nearly 30 years of technology experience and over a decade focused on delivering large-scale identity, access and entitlement solutions across Defence, Government and commercial sectors. He has led complex modernisation programmes—designing cloud-native IGA, Zero Trust and hybrid Azure AD identity architectures—for organisations like the MOD, Microsoft UK, Home Office and British Army, often owning both strategy and low-level engineering. Jay combines deep Microsoft identity stack expertise (MIM/FIM, AD FS, Azure AD) with hands-on custom development for directory synchronisation and entitlement systems that have managed 100k+ identities. He is also an entrepreneur and builder: founder of londonbikers.com and several imaging platforms that demonstrate his skills in scalable, cloud-based media processing and community management. Comfortable navigating security accreditations and operational constraints, he blends pragmatic delivery with inventive technical work—often producing bespoke extensions and proofs-of-concept to bridge legacy and modern ecosystems. Based in London, he pairs technical depth with a photographer’s eye and a tinkerer’s curiosity that informs both product and platform decisions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at West Thames CollegeChiswick Community School
Spanish
Github Skills (137)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
TetronIO/JIM
May 2025 - Jul 2026
A modern self-hosted Identity Management System for organisations.
Contributions:1 review, 131 PRs, 940 pushes in 1 year 2 months
account-managementair-gappedgroup-managementidamidentity
TetronIO/MIMSyncScheduler
Feb 2021 - Nov 2025
A program to better manage the execution of MIM 2016 sync and related tasks.
Contributions:8 releases, 4 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 10 months
synchronisationexecutionmimfim2010identity
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