personal
My name is Will Norris. I’m 29. 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
I can be contacted by email at will@willnorris.com or by phone at +1 (901) 484-9455.
colophon
This site is powered by Wordpress and uses the PDX theme with a custom style and is hosted on a Joyent SmartMachine. I invested in TextDrive way back in the day as one of the VC200, so I have a lifetime account at Joyent. Even if I didn’t, I’d probably still host with them — I’ve always had great experiences with the team at Joyent, and their technology stack is really solid. All of my domains are registered with Gandi. They certainly live up to their “no bullshit” motto, and I’ve been very happy with them. They may be a few bucks higher than some of their competitors, but it is well worth it.