Stu Frankish
Staff Engineer at Duende Software
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStu Frankish is a Staff Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack Microsoft Azure applications and specialising in Identity & Access Management, including OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SSO. He has led teams and delivered business-critical systems for Iceland Foods—designing international ordering, invoicing, product development platforms and a bespoke multiclient SSO backbone—before joining Duende Software. Comfortable across front-end frameworks and back-end Microsoft stacks, Stu combines a strong UI/UX sensibility with a security-first approach to architecture and code. He’s known for adopting, adapting and improving technical standards and tooling to produce efficient, maintainable solutions. Based in England, he brings a practical operator’s mindset from store-level technical support through to platform engineering, which gives him an uncommon empathy for real-world user and operational constraints.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Upton by Chester High SchoolDeeside College
English
Stackoverflow
838reputation
122kreached
21answers
14questions
Github Skills (132)
identity10
authentication10
proxy10
asp-net-core10
background-worker10
security10
asp-net10
docker-container10
background-thread10
duende10
scheduled-tasks10
hangfire10
docker-compose10
openid-connect10
openid10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
StuFrankish/idsrv-par-sample
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:17 reviews, 87 PRs, 77 pushes in 6 months
StuFrankish/AspireForIdentityServer
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
Sample solution for a basic Identity Server & Client using Aspire orchestration
Contributions:15 reviews, 44 PRs, 102 pushes in 7 months
aspireidentity-managementoidc-clientoidc-provider
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