William Tran

Not quite internet famous.

Bio

William Tran has been helping startups and enterprises harness the power of the Spring Framework for over a decade. Currently driving the transportation transformation with Autonomic, he was previously building products for Pivotal Cloud Foundry and made contributions to the Spring Framework and Netflix OSS.

Specialized in

Cloud application security, microservices, continuous delivery, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Spring, Java, MySQL, Hibernate

Presentations

2017-02 Beyond OAuth2: End to End Microservice Security, microXchg, Berlin, Germany

A JOSE based approach to end to end message security and authorization based on chain of custody, for microservice architectures.

2015-12 Enabling Cloud Native Security with OAuth2 and Multi-Tenant UAA, Cloud Foundry Summit Asia, Shanghai, China

A look at the multitenancy features I helped design and build into Cloud Foundry’s authorization server.

2015-09 Securing Microservices with Spring Cloud Security, SpringOne2GX, Washington, DC, USA

A demonstration of securing evolving microservices using Spring Boot’s OAuth 2 support.

2014-09 Server-side JavaScript with Nashorn and Spring, SpringOne2GX, Dallas, TX, USA

Showing off the capabilities of our CommonJS and Promises A+ compliant JavaScript engine built using Nashorn, Java 8’s replacement for Rhino.

Patents

2018-08-09 Invocation Path Security in Distributed Systems

This patent covers some of the material in my Beyond OAuth2: End to End Microservice Security presentation. An open source proof of concept can be found at https://github.com/william-tran/microservice-security-jose, licensed under Apache 2.0.

Employment

2017-04 - Autonomic, Toronto, ON, Canada

2014-10 - 2017-04 Pivotal Software Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada

2011-04 - 2014-10 Xtreme Labs Inc (acquired by Pivotal Software Inc), Toronto, ON, Canada

2010-11 - 2011-04 Zerofootprint Software Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada

2007-02 - 2010-11 Achievers Inc. (formerly I Love Rewards Inc., acquired by Blackhawk Network), Toronto, ON, Canada

2000-07 – 2007-02 Honeywell Airframe Systems Canada, Inc., Mississauga, ON, Canada

Education

2006 University of Toronto, St. George Campus