Pete Birkinshaw
Founder at Mimoto
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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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
Github Skills (82)
metadata10
shibboleth-sp10
shibboleth10
idp10
passwords10
parse10
xml10
tld9
ruby9
signature9
otp9
api8
signature-verification8
saml-metadata8
newsletter8
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/fastfwd
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Plugin-like function redirection for Elixir, for adapters, factories and other fun
Contributions:93 commits, 18 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 8 months
factorieselixiradaptersredirectionelixir-lang
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