Vincent Rioux
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolVincent Rioux is a Senior Solutions Architect with 13 years of IT experience and a deep background in systems, identity and access management, and higher-education IT leadership. Based in Montreal, he transitioned from directing IT, architecture and security at UQAM to helping customers at AWS design scalable, secure cloud architectures. He pairs hands-on engineering—evidenced by contributions to the widely used SimpleSAMLphp project, where he improved consent logic and automated tests—with executive-level planning, budgeting and datacenter strategy. Vincent holds a software engineering degree and an MBA, bringing both technical depth and managerial rigor to complex, cross-functional initiatives. Known for simplifying tangled identity ecosystems, he quietly blends practical dev work with policy and operations to make technology feel seamless for end users.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software engineering, Bachelor, Software engineering at UQAM | Université du Québec à MontréalMBA, Management, MBA, Management at Université du Québec à Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (6)
authentication10
user-authentication10
php10
saml10
testing10
regular-expression9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
SimpleSAMLphp is an application written in native PHP that deals with authentication.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily focused on enhancing the authentication functionality of the SimpleSAMLphp project. They introduced support for regular expressions within the consent disabling feature, allowing for more flexible configuration. Further contributions involved refining existing code and implementing unit tests to ensure the correctness of the consent logic. These changes aimed at improving the usability and robustness of the authentication process.
securityphpauthenticationsaml2saml
aws-samples/aws-refarch-moodle
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
amazonlanding-zonereference-architectureamazon-web-servicesaws
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