Nat Sakimura
- Co-author of OpenID Connect Core 1.0
- Co-author of FAPI (Financial-grade API) specifications
Bio
Nat Sakimura has chaired the OpenID Foundation for many years and is a primary author of the OpenID Connect specifications and the FAPI security profile used by open banking implementations worldwide.
Profile built from public OpenID Foundation and IETF records.
Where their work shows up
Sakimura's authorship runs through OpenID Connect and the FAPI security profile, which became the de facto baseline for open banking worldwide and, through PSD2, for European payment authentication. FAPI is the best available template for any high-value API, not just financial ones.
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