Werner Mendizabal
Senior Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWerner Mendizabal is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating identity and media platform services, currently designing identity solutions for Disney+ and Hulu at The Walt Disney Company. He has a long tenure in cloud and hosting environments from Rackspace and Beacon Hill to enterprise-scale streaming, focusing on authentication, credential management, automation, and production reliability. An active contributor to OpenStack Keystone, Werner helped implement TOTP authentication, timezone fixes across token APIs, and Fernet-based credential encryption—work that underscores his expertise in secure, interoperable identity systems. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from UT San Antonio and blends academic rigor with practical, test-driven engineering for high-availability services.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (11)
authentication10
user-authentication10
credential-manager10
openstack10
credentials10
python10
api-design9
cryptography9
service-design9
service-provider9
documentation8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/keystone
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
OpenStack Identity (Keystone). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Werner contributed significantly to the OpenStack Keystone project, primarily focused on authentication and credential management. They implemented a Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) authentication mechanism, incorporating unit tests and documentation. Further contributions involved fixing timezone-related issues with v2 tokens validated on the v3 API. The user also worked on credential encryption, including adding configuration options and developing a Fernet-based credential provider.
vcenterkeystoneopendevidentityopenstack
nonameentername/moinmoin-bootstrap
Mar 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 2 years 3 months
bootstrap4bootstrap-themetwitterbootstraptwitter-bootstrap
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