David Recordon (born September 4, 1986) is an American technologist with an open standards and

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background. 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 Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican n ...

. 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 Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

, 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. In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the

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. Recordon was employed as an Open Platforms Tech Lead at blogging company Six Apart and more recently as a Facebook Engineering Director. In March 2015, Recordon was appointed to the newly created position of Director of White House Information Technology by President Barack Obama. Through this role, he drove major technology modernization efforts touching nearly every aspect of the White House. 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 The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Ha ...

, 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. In this role, he drove massive modernization of classified systems in partnership with the DoD and the IC.

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