Summary
Phil Whipps is a Solutions Architect and seasoned Identity and Access Management specialist with over 20 years' experience delivering secure, scalable IAM, CIAM, and SSO solutions across education, government and enterprise. He has deep hands-on expertise with Microsoft, IBM and NetIQ platforms and protocols including SAML, OAuth, OIDC and LDAP, and drove core CIAM work at Microsoft contributing to Azure AD B2C and Graph. Known for translating complex technical requirements into pragmatic identity architectures, he blends a customer-first consulting mindset with engineering rigor and incident-response experience. At Microsoft he bridged product, engineering and customers to influence roadmap and explore AI-assisted migration tooling, and he now applies that practitioner perspective at Okta. Based in Queensland, Australia, Phil is a trusted advisor who consistently delivers future-ready identity services and documentation to accelerate adoption and operational success. Notably, his career combines deep platform development experience with long-term consulting roles, giving him rare visibility from low-level protocol troubleshooting to large-scale deployment strategy.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information technology, Information technology at TAFE NSW
John Paul College