Justin Richer

CTO

Arlington, Massachusetts, United States26 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

Authored 'OAuth in Action' book on security standards.
Founded Bespoke Engineering, focusing on internet security.
Led identity engineering at MongoDB for secure cloud offerings.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in Internet Security and Identity Management with a focus on standards development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Identity ManagementSecurityConsultingStandards DevelopmentInternet SecurityTechnical DirectionProduct DevelopmentArchitectureAuthenticationSystems ArchitectureGame DesignCollaborationSoftware Development

Other Skills

Policy ManagementOAuthOpenIDSystem ArchitectureFederated Identity ManagementOpen SourceSoftware EngineeringJavaDistributed SystemsLinuxCloud ComputingRESTIntegrationPythonUnix

About

Justin is a technologist working on a wide variety of projects and problems throughout the internet. He is the author of OAuth in Action (https://www.manning.com/books/oauth-2-in-action) along with Antonio Sanso. Justin founded Bespoke Engineering, a technical consultancy focusing on internet security. He is the editor of several security standards including http message signatures, GNAP, OAuth dynamic client registration, OAuth token introspection, and vectors of trust, and has contributed to dozens of others. He previously spent 15 years at the MITRE Corporation contributing to a many different efforts, including collaboration, identity, serious gaming, and security research programs. He contributes to open source implementations, such as the MITREid Connect project. He has experience building software in a wide variety of languages and platforms, from Java to Python to PHP to JavaScript and beyond. He has been invited to speak and present at conferences around the world on a variety of topics, from security to game design.

Experience

Mongodb

Senior Staff Engineer

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

Lead the identity engineering efforts of the Atlas cloud database team, setting product direction and ensuring a world-class secure offering.

Identity ManagementSecurity

Bespoke engineering, llc

3 roles

Parttime Consultant

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Moonlighting as a consultant in addition to my day job. Continuing work with NIST specifications.

ConsultingStandards Development

Independent Consultant, Founder

Promoted

Feb 2015 – Aug 2024 · 9 yrs 6 mos

Independent consultant working on a variety of projects in the internet security and identity management space, with broad experience and deep expertise in a variety of related fields.
Activities include managing an open source community, software development, systems architecture, standards development, and speaking and education engagements on the topics of OpenID, OAuth, Internet security, and identity systems, among others.

Internet SecurityIdentity Management

Parttime Consultant

May 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

Uberether

Chief Technology Officer

Jul 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos

Define the technical direction of the company, guide the development of the ATO Advantage and IAM advantage products, and enable the engineering team to extend their world-class technical prowess.

Technical DirectionProduct Development

Authlete

Principal Architect

Jun 2017 – Jun 2024 · 7 yrs

Engineering and architecture work on the core Authlete product. Define, develop, and build out a new core authentication and authorization strategy and architecture for the system. Instituted change management practices throughout development. Grew and mentored the engineering team.

ArchitectureAuthentication

Mitre

Principal Technologist

Mar 2000 – Feb 2015 · 14 yrs 11 mos

Systems architect, project leader, software engineer, game designer, standards editor, research scientist, and various other activities.
Projects include:
distributed identity and internet security standards, deployment, and implementation
serious games for policy management, emergency response, unmanned aerial vehicles, and air traffic control
collaboration systems for software development, cross-boundary information sharing, translingual realtime chat, and distributed, place-based communication
management of encrypted networking and real-time traffic shaping
Other activities have included:
starting and running a company-wide "science fair"
pioneering company policy on open source software

Systems ArchitectureStandards Development