Summary
Shilen Patel is an Identity Management Architect and Java developer with 18 years of experience designing centralized authentication, authorization, and identity systems for Duke University. He architects and operationalizes campus-wide identity services while contributing code to Grouper, the Internet2 open-source access management project. Based in Durham, North Carolina, he blends hands-on Java development with systems-level thinking to deliver secure, auditable access controls for large academic environments. With a Master of Computer Science from NC State and nearly two decades at Duke, he pairs deep institutional knowledge with practical engineering to solve complex identity challenges.
18 years of coding experience
Master of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at North Carolina State University