Thomas Dack
Federating Services Group Leader
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Dack is a Federating Services Group Leader at UKRI STFC’s Scientific Computing department with nine years’ experience building and operating distributed computing and AAI services. He progressed from a graduate rotation scheme into senior systems administration and now leads efforts to deploy and federate identity and access management (notably Indigo IAM) across research infrastructures such as IRIS. Comfortable bridging hands-on engineering, cloud/OpenStack deployments and project coordination, he has a background in both computer science (MSc) and particle physics that helps him translate complex scientific requirements into robust infrastructure. Known for pragmatic delivery, he combines systems administration rigor with user-focused federation work to enable single sign-on and resource integration across communities.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (45)
openid-connect8
authentication8
rpm8
stomp8
identity7
data-stream7
certificate7
access-token7
python7
scim6
android6
android-layout6
objective-c6
dialog6
background-process6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stfc/WorkExp-CompWorkshop
Apr 2018 - May 2019
This repository contains the example code and associated documentation for the Work Experience Computing Workshop.
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 2 months
zeromqworkshopdata-streamdistributed-computingwork-experience
stfc/dynafed-oidc-plugin
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
An authorization plugin for the DynaFed project that allows for permissions to access resources to be determined by attributes from an access token received from an OIDC IDP.
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
oidcauthorizationaccess-tokenidptoken
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