Pete Birkinshaw
Founder at Mimoto
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPete Birkinshaw is an experienced founder and identity & access management specialist with 16 years in software, consulting and operations, focused on Shibboleth, SAML, LDAP and federated identity for higher education and research. He combines hands-on Ruby development (Rails, Sinatra), test-driven practices (RSpec, Cucumber) and sysadmin/DevOps skills (Puppet, TheForeman, Linux) to deliver secure, scalable identity services and account provisioning. As founder of Digital Identity Ltd and Mimoto he has productised academic identity tooling (including the Indiid.net cloud identity product) while continuing to provide bespoke development and support. His background as a sysadmin and software-in-test at institutions like the BBC and The University of Manchester gives him a pragmatic, ops-aware approach to building reliable authentication infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable debugging directory services as designing federated auth flows, bringing a rare blend of operational depth and developer discipline.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Econ.) Honours, 2:1, Government and Economics, 2:1, BA(Econ.) Honours, 2:1, Government and Economics, 2:1 at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (62)
passwords10
xml10
shibboleth-sp10
saml9
shibboleth9
ruby9
otp9
metadata9
saml-metadata9
tld9
docker8
elixir8
openldap8
signature-verification8
yubikey8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Digital-Identity-Labs/digital-identity-labs.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2025
Simple company details
Contributions:1 PR, 87 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 10 months
reactcssjavascriptidentity-managementnodejs
Digital-Identity-Labs/rasp
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
An Apache and Shibboleth SP Docker base image
Contributions:53 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years
dockershibboleth-spsaml2shibboleth-authentication
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