Yi Zhan is a cloud solutions architect with a decade of experience bridging engineering, integration, and enterprise sales across Huawei and global consulting firms. Based in Guangzhou and currently leading Huawei Cloud initiatives in Kazakhstan and China, he blends hands-on backend development with customer-facing solution design for cloud stack and data governance. An active open-source contributor to Casdoor, Yi implemented multiple identity provider integrations (Apple, AzureAD, WeChat, Steam) and strengthened OIDC/PKCE and token handling—showing practical expertise in IAM and authentication flows. With prior risk assurance and digital transformation work at PwC and EY, he pairs technical depth with audit-grade rigor in regulated environments. He studied mathematics and economics at Pitzer College, giving him a quantitative approach to systems design and business value.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Economics, Mathematics, Economics at Pitzer College
An open-source UI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single-Sign-On (SSO) platform with web UI supporting OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, CAS, LDAP, SCIM, WebAuthn, TOTP, MFA, Face ID, RADIUS, Google Workspace, Active Directory and Kerberos
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Integrations Engineer
Contributions:24 reviews, 46 commits, 46 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and integration aspects of the Casdoor project. Their work focused on adding support for various identity providers (IDPs) such as Apple, AzureAD, Slack, Baidu, WeChat, and Steam by implementing the necessary logic and API integrations. They also addressed authentication flow issues, including adding OIDC support, and implemented features such as token-based authentication and PKCE support. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the token handling, and refactored existing code.
Contributions:47 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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