Karl Mcguinness
Advisor at Keycard
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorKarl Mcguinness is a product and technology leader with over 25 years of experience designing mission-critical, internet-scale identity platforms, best known as the Chief Product Architect who helped build Okta’s vendor-neutral Identity Cloud. He led cross-cloud strategy and converged identity architectures—bringing together Access Management, IGA, and PAM—and helped drive industry standards like passkeys and Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol. Based in San Francisco, he now advises multiple security and identity startups, translating enterprise-scale product and platform experience into early-stage strategy. Karl is passionate about “working on stuff that matters” and focuses on creating more value than he captures, a philosophy that informed Okta’s Secure Identity Commitment. His background spans hands-on engineering, platform architecture, and acquisitions that accelerated developer and zero-trust strategies, revealing a rare mix of builder, strategist, and standards advocate.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
okta10
google-chrome-extension9
google-chrome8
idp7
saml-service-provider7
ws-federation7
chrome6
identity-provider6
chrome-extension6
identity6
service-provider5
sdk5
authentication5
openid-connect5
testing4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
smashew/api
Jul 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:44 commits in 5 months
mcguinness/simple-radius-server
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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