2025 – present

Ping Identity and ForgeRock

The identity chapter: two bloodlines, one platform - federation from Denver, Sun's rescued open source from Oslo.

Worked with directly, 2025 – presentRed Education partner

Ping Identity opens the identity era of this record - and it carries two heritages. The Denver federation pioneer behind PingFederate, and ForgeRock, the Norwegian fork that saved Sun Microsystems' open-source identity stack, were combined by Thoma Bravo in August 2023 into the platform this page profiles. In 2025 that alignment became formal training.

PingFederate, studied properly

In 2025 Rodolfo completed Ping Identity's official PingFederate training and earned the PingFederate Practitioner credential, deep-diving the federation server that turned SAML from a specification into enterprise plumbing. For someone who teaches access management on other platforms and builds SAML and OIDC tooling for this site, it was the natural next protocol stack to master from the inside.

Identity, decoded on this site

The identity toolset on this site decodes the same artifacts PingFederate and PingOne move in production: the SAML decoder, the JWT and OIDC inspectors, and the PKCE and TOTP tools all read the assertions, tokens, and flows federation runs on - locally, in the browser. The chapter's coursework runs through PingFederate practitioner training in 2025, and the federation patterns it teaches are exactly what those tools make visible.

What it certified

PingFederate Practitioner (2025), earned through Ping Identity Training. Full detail on the credentials page.

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The company was founded in 2002. This page covers only the years worked with it.