David Recordon
David Recordon, aka "daveman692", is a technologist with an open standards and open source background currently residing in San Francisco working as the Vice President of Infrastructure and Security at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. On March 19, 2015 he was appointed to the newly created role of Director of White House Information Technology by U.S. President Barack Obama. Through this role, he drove major technology modernization efforts ranging touching nearly every aspect of the White House.
Recordon was formerly employed as an Open Platforms Tech Lead at blogging company Six Apart and more recently as a Facebook Engineering Director.
Recordon is best known for his involvement in development and popularization of OpenID and OAuth.
In 2007, Recordon became the youngest recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.
