Joseph Heenan
Standards Specialist & Certification Director, OpenID Foundation

Joseph Heenan

Joseph is a software engineer & architect with over 25 years’ experience, who started writing mobile apps before mobile apps existed.

He contributes to IETF and OpenID Foundation working groups, including the FAPI group where he helped write the security profiles used by most OpenBanking ecosystems. He’s helped companies around the globe architect and deploy secure systems, particularly when mobile apps are involved. Joseph is also Technical Lead of the OpenID Foundation Certification Program.

Joseph lives in Glasgow, Scotland with his wife.They love travelling to Japan and between them they’ve fostered over 100 cats for the Cats Protection charity.

@josephheenan

Latest Contributions

Hybrid Event
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2026
May 19 ‑ May 22, 2026
Hybrid Event
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2025
May 06 ‑ May 09, 2025
Video
Panel | Executive Directors Speak: Why We Need More Collaboration
Jun 07, 2024
Video
High-security & Interoperable OAuth 2: What’s the Latest?
Jun 06, 2024
Hybrid Event
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2024
Jun 04 ‑ Jun 07, 2024
Video
OpenID Foundation Workshop
Jun 04, 2024
Video
High-security & interoperable OAuth 2: What's the latest?
May 10, 2023
Hybrid Event
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023
May 09 ‑ May 12, 2023
Video
What’s Hot at the OpenID Foundation | Workshop
May 09, 2023
Hybrid Event
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2022
May 10 ‑ May 13, 2022
Video
Pre-Conference Workshop | How OpenID Standards are Enabling Secure & Interoperable Digital Identity Ecosystems
May 10, 2022
Hybrid Event
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2021
Sep 13 ‑ Sep 16, 2021
Congress
European Identity & Cloud Conference 2019
May 14 ‑ May 17, 2019
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