# Standards Architect

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/experts/tim-cappalli/
Last updated: 2026-09-20
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## Bio

Tim Cappalli is a standards architect at Okta and an editor of both the W3C Web Authentication specification and the newer Digital Credentials API. He led work on the first generation of passkeys at Microsoft and maintains passkeys.dev and digitalcredentials.dev, the reference sites most implementers actually read.

Profile built from public W3C, FIDO Alliance, and employer records.

## Where their work shows up

[WebAuthn](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/webauthn-fido2/) gave the browser a way to ask for a phishing-resistant credential. The Digital Credentials API does the same job for a government-issued credential in a wallet, so a website can request a driving licence or an age proof through a browser-mediated flow rather than a bespoke app handoff. Together they are the two browser primitives wallet-based identity depends on. See [implementing passkeys in the enterprise](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/authentication/implementing-passkeys-enterprise/) and the [mobile driving licence standard](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/iso-18013-5-mdl/).