Phil Windley is a Senior Software Development Manager at AWS Identity. He is also the co-founder and organizer of the
Internet Identity Workshop. He was previously an Enterprise Architect and Principal Engineer in the Office of Information Technology at Brigham Young University (BYU). He was the Founding Chair of the Sovrin Foundation serving from 2016 to 2020, writes the popular Technometria blog, and is the author of the books
Learning Digital Identity (O'Reilly, Media 2023),
The Live Web (Course Technology, 2011), and
Digital Identity (O'Reilly Media, 2005). Phil has been a computer science professor at BYU and the University of Idaho, founder and CTO of several internet technology companies, and served as CIO for the State of Utah. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis.