John Bradley
Senior Principal Architect at Yubico
Area B (South Fraser Canyon/Sunshine Valley), British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarJohn Bradley is a Senior Principal Architect with a decade of experience specializing in secure authentication and standards-driven back-end engineering, currently shaping product and protocol strategy at Yubico. Based in British Columbia, he pairs hands-on contributions to high-profile open standards—most notably meaningful edits to the W3C WebAuthn specification around transport protocols and extension IANA registrations—with governance experience as a long-serving OpenID Foundation board member. He excels at converting complex security requirements into pragmatic implementations and has a track record of fixing subtle spec and interoperability issues that improve real-world deployments. Colleagues rely on him for deep protocol knowledge, meticulous attention to detail, and leadership that bridges standards, product, and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
spec10
specification10
api-design10
webauthn10
cryptography9
javascript6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/webauthn
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 18 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:John contributed significantly to the WebAuthn specification project, focusing on adding and refining features related to transport protocols like Lightning. They addressed bugs such as missing commas and removal of implementation references. Furthermore, the user updated IANA registrations for extensions and corrected examples to reflect current extensions.
apipublic-keywebauthnweb-authenticationauthentication
ve7jtb/webauthn
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials
Contributions:6 pushes in 8 days
apipublic-keypasskeyweb-authenticationauthentication
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