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I author and maintain popular open source projects which are primarily written in Go or React. I care deeply about education, climate change, data privacy and ownership which is why I have
- co-founded Serlo Education e.V. in 2009/2010, a German non-profit NGO which operates the open education platform www.serlo.org and brings educational resources (math, physics, chemistry, German, ...) without advertising and free of charge to millions of users per month. German President Frank Walter-Steinmeier awarded us with Germany's Federal Cross of Merit in 2019 for our work at Serlo;
- founded the ORY open source organization in 2016 which provides popular developer tools in the area of user/identity management, access control, policy management, user privacy, delegation and federation, cloud automation, and cloud security.
Currently I work full-time at ORY where my responsibility is primarily writing the ORY software stack. I also enjoy landscape photography which you can find at __aeneas. You may also find me on LinkedIn from time to time.
Projects
These are projects I started and either still maintain or have maintained for a significant amount of time and am particularly proud of.
| Project | GitHub Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ORY Hydra | 9k+ | OAuth2 Server and OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect Provider written in Go - cloud native, security-first, open source API security for your infrastructure. SDKs for any language. |
| React Page | 8.1k+ | Next-gen, highly customizable content editor for the browser - based on React and Redux and written in TypeScript. WYSIWYG on steroids. |
| ORY Kratos | 1.2k+ | Never build user login, user registration, 2fa, profile management ever again! Works on any operating system, cloud, with any programming language, user interface, and user experience! Written in Go. |
| ORY Oathkeeper | 1.8k+ | A cloud native Identity & Access Proxy / API (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authenticates, authorizes, and mutates incoming HTTP(s) requests. Inspired by the BeyondCorp / Zero Trust white paper. Written in Go. |
| ORY Ladon | 1.7k+ | A SDK for access control policies: authorization for the microservice and IoT age. Inspired by AWS IAM policies. Written for Go. |
| ORY Dockertest | 1.3k+ | Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work. |
| ORY Keto | 600+ | A cloud native access control server providing best-practice patterns (RBAC, ABAC, ACL, AWS IAM Policies, Kubernetes Roles, ...) via REST APIs. Written in Go. |
| ORY Fosite | 1.4k+ | Extensible security first OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK for Go. |
There are many other projects I contribute to which are displayed in my public commit history.
Research
My master thesis in computer science Distributed linear correlation cluster detection using MapReduce applies mathematic projections and computer graphic algorithms to high-volume and high-dimensional data in order to find meaningful patterns in reasonable time.
