Paul Querna
Co-Founder And CTO at ConductorOne
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Querna is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CTO in Portland with 21 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, Zero Trust security, and distributed systems. As co-founder and CTO of ConductorOne he leads development of a cloud-native identity and access management platform that secures hybrid and multi-cloud environments. He previously founded ScaleFT (acquired by Okta) and served as a senior architect at Okta, translating startup security innovations into production-grade products. A long-time Apache Software Foundation member and former VP of Infrastructure, Paul has deep open-source credentials—contributing to Apache HTTP Server, APR, Traffic Server and niche, high-impact tools like ffjson (fast JSON serialization for Go) and a TOTP library. He combines systems-level coding and cross-platform portability work with product leadership, often tackling tricky protocol, performance, and security problems with pragmatic, elegant code.
21 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (74)
python10
testing10
http10
c1110
c1710
lua10
code-generation10
libuv10
file-processing10
command-line-tool10
apache-http-server10
operating-system10
fileheader10
api10
c-language10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pquerna/otp
Dec 2014 - Nov 2020
TOTP library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 10 reviews, 64 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the development of a TOTP (Time-Based One-Time Password) library in Go. Their work included implementing features like account name extraction, generating TOTP keys, and validating passcodes. The user added unit tests to ensure the correctness of the implemented features and integrated test vectors from RFC-6238 to ensure compliance with the standard. Furthermore, the user refactored some code for HOTP and TOTP implementations.
golangtotpfactorotp
pquerna/ffjson
Mar 2014 - Sep 2019
faster JSON serialization for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:309 commits, 90 PRs, 110 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the development of a faster JSON serialization library for Go. Their commits focused on implementing the core functionality of a code generator, including a parser to extract struct information and a template renderer to create optimized serialization code. The contributions involved creating functions for extracting struct fields, generating marshal functions for specific types, and integrating various Go packages for generating code for JSON serialization.
golangjson-serializationjsonpathserializationfaster
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