About Gluu

Before starting Gluu, founder Mike Schwartz spent ten years as an IT consultant helping enterprises build IAM infrastructure. He noticed a pattern: incumbent IAM vendors, initially innovative, tended to stop innovating once they had adoption. A platform built on open source components would sustain a more consistent level of innovation; identity technology advances quickly.

So the first Gluu Server launched: a curated distribution of the best open source IAM components, configured through one control plane and commercially supported. Today many enterprises use Gluu's software to protect critical digital resources.

Gluu leads development of many of the open source components in its commercial products, and supports enterprises whether they host their own infrastructure or outsource operation to Gluu.

As an employee-owned company, we are grateful to loyal customers for supporting us for 15 years. By building a stable business with sustainable growth, we intend to keep innovating for another 15.

Founder Mike Schwartz is the author of the 2018 Apress book Securing the Perimeter, host of the Open Source Underdogs podcast, and Identerati-in-chief of the Identerati Office Hours livestream.

Gluu's team is globally distributed and diverse. Most of the core team has been with Gluu for more than ten years.