Xuekun Kou has extensive experience with Enterprise Java system architecture. He has designed, implemented, and deployed Java EE-based solutions for all the leading Java EE application server platforms. His experience with OpenSSO dates back to its very beginning: Sun Microsystems' Directory Server Access Management Edition (DSAME). Xuekun Kou is the author of the book, GlassFish Administration, published by Packt Publishing. He holds degrees from the Florida State University and the University of Science and Technology of China.

Peter Major—at the time of this writing—is a senior student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics studying Computer Engineering. He first started using OpenSSO in 2009 in his dormitory to manage the students accounts, and since January 2010 he has developed several commercially used authentication modules. Since April 2010, he's been an active member of the OpenSSO community and also a contributor at ForgeRock OpenAM.