David Recordon
American technologist (born 1986)
David Recordon
In office January 20, 2021 – September 2022[ 1] President Joe Biden Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Austin Lin[ 2] In office March 19, 2015 – January 20, 2017President Barack Obama Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Chris Herndon
Born (1986-09-04 ) September 4, 1986 (age 38) Portland, Oregon , U.S.Occupation Technologist
David Recordon (born September 4, 1986) is an American technologist with an open standards and open source background.[ 3] He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Rebellion Defense. From January 2021 to September 2022, he served as the Director of Technology in the White House under U.S. President Joe Biden . He previously served in a similar role during the last two years of the presidency of Barack Obama .[ 4] Between his roles in government, he worked as Vice President of Infrastructure and Security at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative . Earlier in his career, he played an important role in the development and evangelism for OpenID and OAuth .
Biography
Born in Portland , Oregon , Recordon began working with open source software and open standards in high school, including working for LiveJournal . At age 19, he played an important role in the development and popularization of OpenID and OAuth , and is probably best known for his evangelism on behalf of the decentralized single-sign-on protocol.[ 5] In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award .[ 6] [non-primary source needed ]
Recordon was employed as an Open Platforms Tech Lead at blogging company Six Apart and more recently as a Facebook Engineering Director.[citation needed ]
In March 2015, Recordon was appointed to the newly created position of Director of White House Information Technology by President Barack Obama .[ 4] Through this role, he drove major technology modernization efforts touching nearly every aspect of the White House.[ 7] Following the end of the Obama administration, Recordon was hired as Vice President of Infrastructure and Security at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and resided in San Francisco .
In the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential election , Recordon volunteered as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the Presidential transition of Joe Biden , and, on January 5, 2021, Recordon was named as the Director of Technology in the White House Office of Management and Administration for the incoming administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris .[ 8] In this role, he drove massive modernization of classified systems in partnership with the DoD and the IC .
References
^ "David Recordon" . LinkedIn. Retrieved September 25, 2022 .
^ "Austin Lin" . LinkedIn. Retrieved September 25, 2022 .
^ O'Dell, J (August 30, 2011). "Facebook opens up about open-source software" . Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
^ a b Breckenridge, Anita. "President Obama Names David Recordon as Director of White House Information Technology" . whitehouse.gov (Press release). Retrieved March 20, 2015 – via National Archives .
^ Hammer, Eran. "History" . Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
^ "Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards – Hall of Fame" . Retrieved September 17, 2011 .
^ Shear, Michael (April 3, 2016). "Technology Upgrades Get White House Out of the 20th Century" . The New York Times . Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
^ "President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of White House Staff" . buildbackbetter.gov . January 5, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2021 .
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