Aaron Parecki
Senior Director Of Identity Standards at Self-employed
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Parecki is a seasoned identity and security expert with nearly two decades of experience shaping OAuth, OpenID, and web standards as Director of Identity Standards at Okta and editor of OAuth 2.1. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to popular open-source projects like vouch-proxy and Laravel Socialite—with standards leadership at the IETF and OpenID Foundation, where he co-chairs working groups and sits on the board. Author of OAuth 2.0 Simplified and maintainer of oauth.net, he’s taught OAuth and online security to thousands and regularly speaks internationally on privacy and data ownership. His background spans startups and R&D leadership (including Esri and Geoloqi), giving him a rare blend of product, protocol design, and operational experience. Based in Portland, he also maintains an active creator presence—hosting a weekly livestream on video production—reflecting an ability to translate complex technical topics into accessible education.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS & BA Computer and Information Science, BS & BA Computer and Information Science at University of OregonPart 107 Remote Pilot, Part 107 Remote Pilot at Pilot Institute
English, German
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Github Skills (37)
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arcgis10
laravel10
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phpunit10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
vouch/vouch-proxy
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
an SSO and OAuth / OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:44 commits, 15 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the SSO proxy. Their contributions include implementing features to allow for public access, cookie domain configuration, and the addition of an "allow all users" option. Moreover, they addressed critical issues related to data handling, such as fixing errors arising from invalid cookie data and invalid gzip data processing. They also made significant changes to support OpenID Connect providers and OAuth 2.0 Bearer Tokens.
nginxoauthnginx-proxyssooauth2
laravel/socialite
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Laravel wrapper around OAuth 1 & OAuth 2 libraries.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to enhancing the OAuth 2.0 support within the Laravel Socialite library. Their work involved adding and refining features related to PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange), a security enhancement for OAuth. This included modifications to the core AbstractProvider, GoogleProvider, and associated tests. The user also refactored code to consolidate logic and improve the library's token request process.
laraveloauth
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