Scott Tustison
Senior Software Development Manager at IBM
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Tustison is a senior software development manager and security-focused architect with 13 years of experience building and hardening enterprise applications across defense and commercial sectors. Currently leading teams at IBM after a multi-year tenure at Octo, he bridges hands-on engineering (Java, OSGi, web stacks) with applied security expertise—PKI, SAML, LDAP, XACML and WS-*—to deliver secure, available systems and empower developers. He has a track record of implementing policy and token services, designing secure architectures, and training engineering teams to bake security into the development lifecycle. With an M.S. in Systems Engineering and a background spanning Lockheed Martin to startups, he combines systems thinking with practical delivery, often resurfacing legacy systems into modern web-driven platforms. A perpetual learner, he stays at the forefront of emerging tech while focusing on measurable security outcomes and developer enablement.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMaster of Science (M.S.) Systems Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Systems Engineering at The George Washington University
Github Skills (100)
converting10
identity10
saml10
authentication10
metadata10
security10
modular10
utm10
sketchup10
ddf10
openid-connect10
java10
osgi10
authorization10
access-management10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
codice/usng.js
Oct 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years
javascript-libraryutmjavascriptmgrsusng
stustison/ddf
Apr 2015 - Jun 2021
The Distributed Data Framework - Distribution, SDK, and Test
Contributions:13 PRs, 646 pushes, 156 branches in 6 years 2 months
sdkbig-datadistributed-systemsdatabasekafka
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