Ross Kinder
CTO at Nametag
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Kinder is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of senior engineering experience and over two decades of technical grounding from Carnegie Mellon. He leads Nametag’s effort to prevent deepfakes and social engineering by building end-to-end account recovery and helpdesk verification solutions that blend security research with practical product engineering. Previously he co-founded Groove ID to commercialize passwordless identity and served as a Distinguished Engineer at SecureWorks and a senior researcher at CERT, giving him rare depth across incident response, identity, and applied security. A hands-on engineer, Ross contributes to open-source security tooling—most notably enhancing service provider functionality in the crewjam/saml Go library, including HTTP-POST binding and rigorous request validation. Based in Ann Arbor, he combines startup grit with protocol-level expertise to turn complex adversary models into dependable, operational defenses.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
xml10
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
saml10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
crewjam/saml
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
SAML library for go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 182 commits, 324 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ross primarily contributed to the SAML library for Go, specifically adding and refining service provider functionality. Their work included adding tests for the service provider, implementing the HTTP-POST binding, and making adjustments to handle different types of responses and ensure requests were properly validated. The contributions suggest an understanding of SAML protocols and their implementation in Go. The commits included refactoring elements for better code maintainability.
gosaml
nametaginc/nametag-js
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Authorization client for browser-side sign in with Nametag
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
authorization
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