Michael Schwartz
Founder at Gluu
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike Schwartz is a founder and digital identity expert with over two decades of entrepreneurial experience and a dozen years of hands-on software practice. Based in Austin, he leads Gluu and contributes to the Linux Foundation’s Janssen Project steering committee, blending product leadership with open-source stewardship. His engineering work spans Java and Python, including substantive contributions to oxAuth—an OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider—and practical implementations like a Twilio SMS authenticator. Mike pairs cryptography-focused backend engineering with pragmatic bug fixes and integration scripts, showing comfort across authentication protocols and tooling. He brings a mix of startup grit and standards-level influence, guiding secure identity solutions used across federated systems. An early University of Washington in St. Louis attendee, he’s known for turning protocol-level expertise into deployable, interoperable identity platforms.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
javas10
user-authentication10
authentication10
cryptography10
oauth10
java10
openid-connect10
python9
api-design7
apim7
api7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
GluuFederation/oxAuth
Apr 2014 - May 2022
OAuth 2.0 server and client; OpenID Connect Provider (OP) & UMA Authorization Server (AS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 35 commits, 12 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the oxAuth project by modifying Java code related to key generation and cryptographic operations, which aligns with the project's focus on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. They also addressed a bug in a Python script related to Google+ authentication, suggesting familiarity with both Java and Python. Furthermore, the user drafted a Twilio SMS authenticator script using Python, demonstrating an interest in expanding the authentication methods.
openid-clientopenid-connect-clientsso-loginumaoauth2
nynymike/otto
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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