About

personal

My name is Will Norris. I’m 28. I’m a christian, a husband, a Mac user, and a computer programmer. I don’t normally eat breakfast, but sometimes enjoy a white mocha on my way to work. I like Hanes socks and t-shirts, Barq’s root beer, and Pentel pencils (presently, the Twist Erase III). I bowl about 150, type around 75-80 wpm, and couldn’t run a 7 minute mile if my life depended on it. I haven’t found a single beer that I like, but love a good glass of red wine. I have two tattoos and three current piercings, but have had a total of 8 over the years. I stopped liking professional baseball after the strike in 1994, but still have all my cards in a box somewhere. I’ve accepted the fact that I won’t finish my bachelor’s degree in computer science before my 10 year high school reunion.

I can be found on the web.

professional

My focus for the last few years has been in identity management, specifically distributed authentication systems. I am one of the developers on Shibboleth, an open source web single sign-on product very popular in universities all over the world. This originally extended from my work in higher education, working on enterprise wide solutions for identity consolidation, account provisioning, and federated single sign-on.

I am also one of the principal developers of the Diso Project, working to develop a viable model for distributed social networks. This involves building implementations of many “Open Web” technologies such as OpenID, OAuth, Activity Streams, etc for self-hosted platforms like WordPress.

For those that are interested, my resume is available, and I also have more formal bios of varying lengths suitable for publication.

contact

All of my contact information can be found on the front page of this site.

colophon

This site is powered by WordPress and uses the Thematic theme framework with a custom style. The style was heavily inspired by jeffcroft.com and the background image was taken from localh0st.org (though I’m still technically waiting for official approval to use the image).

I’ve gone through many hosting companies, but have settled with the good folks at Joyent… their Accelerators simply can’t be beat.