
Howdy, I'm Mike Waggoner.
I love riding bikes and making internet.
Luckily, I'm open to new work!
I'm focusing on projects in python, geosocial, digital identity, digital civics, and watersheds.
Connect on socials at LinkedIn, GitHub, Mastodon , or email [email protected] .
Let's spend 30 minutes discovering a new idea! Schedule a time and we can chat about making excellent internet or anything at all.
I recently enjoyed 10 years with The Walt Disney Company as technical leader and Staff Solutions Architect. I worked closely with Enterprise Architecture and Security teams to set standards and provide services to a global workforce. A few favorite projects include:
- A custom employee directory (~1 million records from multiple HCMs including Workday and SAP)
- Custom knowledge management systems ( e.g. reference cloud architectures, theme park employee resources, legal brand guidelines, Disney archives, infosec standards)
- Consulting on identity and access management systems from on-prem CA SiteMinder (2014) to Okta and SailPoint (2024) integrating SAML, OAuth, AWS Cognito, etc.
Specialities and interests
- Reducing complexity
- Web architectures with cloud and SaaS providers (serverless, AWS, CloudFlare, Netlify)
- Business requirements definition and solution architecture
- Identity - OAuth, SAML, DID, Shared Signals
- http - caching, security
- web 2.0 - wiki, fediverse, geosocial
- python - Language processing, data engineering, pandas, datasette, llm plumbing
- php - Laravel and WordPress for enterprise, Mediawiki
- Maintenance planning to match application lifecycles
- Root cause analysis
Upcoming events
The following events of interest help show focus areas. Planned or attended events are in italics.
2026
- PyCon US Long Beach - May
- PyCascades Vancouver - Mar 20-21
- FOSDEM Brussels - Feb
2025
- Mozilla Festival Barcelona - Nov 7-9
- JupyterCon San Diego - Nov 4-5
- Roguelike Celebration Online - Oct 25-26
- FediForum Online - Oct 7-8
- CascadiaJS Seattle - Sep 18-19
- DjangoCon US Chicago - Sep 8-12
- SEMANTiCS 2025 Vienna - September 3-5
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- WordCamp US Portland - Aug 26-29
- Hope New York - Aug 15-17
- WHY2025 Netherlands - Aug 8-12
- DWeb Camp Cascadia - Aug 8-10
- Wikimania Nairobi - Aug 6-9
- Cascadia watershed tour - Aug/Sep
- HTML Day Online - Aug 2
- Fedicon Vancouver - Aug 1-2
- IETF 123 Madrid - Jul 19-25
- ESRI User Conf San Diego - Jul 14-18
- data | art Harvard - Jun 11-12
- FediForum Online - Jun 5-7
- WordCamp EU 2025 Basel - Jun 5-7
- DWeb Institute (from p2p basel) - Summer
- Mule Days, Bishop, California - May 20-25
- PyCon Italia Bologna May 28-31
- DWeb at Web Summit Vancounver - May 27-30
- re:publica Berlin - May 26-28
- Wiki Workshop Online - May 21-22
- MoveLA - Transit, Housing, Olympics - May 16
- PyCon Pittsburgh - May 14-22
- The Web Conf Sydney - Apr 28 - May 2
- DjangoCon EU Dublin - Apr 23-27
- PyCon DE + PyData Darmstadt - Apr 23-25
- Curbivore Los Angeles - Apr 11-12
- IETF 122 Bangkok - Mar 15-21
- Silverton Aladdin's Lamp Hut - March
- GeoPython 2025 Basel - Feb 24-26
- FOSDEM 2025 Brussels - Feb 1-2
- japan/hokkaido snow tour - Jan/Feb
2025
- IndieWebCamp San Diego - Dec 7-8
- PyData Global - Dec 3-5
- Observable - Insight - Dec 3
- IndieWebCamp Berlin - Nov 9-10
- USA Election Day - Nov 5
- MediaWiki EU - Nov 4-6
- Hackaday Supercon - Nov 1-3
- Internet Identity Workshop - Oct 29-31
- BeaverCON - Oct 19-24
- Roguelike Celebration - Oct 19-20
- W3C TPAC - Sep 23-27
- DjangoCon US - Sep 22-27
- WordCamp US - Sep 17-20
- FediForum - Sep 12-14
- Laracon - Aug 27-28
- ttitd - Aug 25 - Sep 02
- !!Con - Aug 24-25
- XOXO - Aug 22-24
- MUTEK 25th - Aug 20-25
- DEF CON - Aug 8-11
- DWeb Camp - Aug 7-11
- BSides LV - Aug 6-7
- Black Hat - Aug 4-7
- ToorCamp - Jun 26-30
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Elsewhere
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