Aeneas Rekkas
Founder & CTO at Ory Corp
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAeneas Rekkas is a founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building open source-first identity and access platforms and cloud-native infrastructure from Munich. As co-founder of Ory Corp and earlier Serlo Education, he blends product leadership with deep hands-on expertise in Go, security (OAuth2/OpenID Connect), Kubernetes, and CI/CD, shipping software that serves hundreds of millions of users. His projects—like Ory Oathkeeper, Fosite and Keto—focus on scalable, security-first architectures (Zanzibar-style permissions, Zero Trust proxies) and demonstrate operational rigor such as automated config reloading and key rotation. He pairs academic grounding in knowledge discovery and security from LMU Munich with a track record of civic tech impact (Serlo reaches over a million monthly users and earned him a national Order of Merit). Notably, his authored OSS has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times, underscoring a rare combination of developer influence and product-market traction.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
German, English, Greek
Github Skills (66)
authorizations10
postgresql10
website-development10
databases10
authentication10
bash10
circleci10
security10
web-development10
website-design10
javascript10
dockers10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
ory/k8s
Nov 2018 - Nov 2022
Kubernetes Helm Charts for the ORY ecosystem.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:92 releases, 84 reviews, 424 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Aeneas focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline for testing and deploying Helm charts within the Kubernetes environment. Their contributions involved modifying the `.circleci/helm-test.sh` script, including adding, fixing, and removing functionality. This included addressing issues related to Helm installation, cleanup, namespace management, and kind-specific configuration. Furthermore, the user upgraded a related chart to the latest releaser version, which enhanced the release pipeline.
chartscharthelmory-oathkeeperhelm-chart
ory/fosite
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Extensible security first OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK for Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:152 releases, 302 reviews, 325 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aeneas contributed to the `ory/fosite` repository, an OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK. Their work involved implementing features related to HMAC key rotation for access tokens, including related changes to the compose/compose_strategy.go and compose/compose.go files to support key rotation. The user also made changes that allow JWT tokens from id_token_hint to be expired, and added the ability to customize JWT claims, improving the flexibility and security of the SDK. The user also refactored various aspects of the code, including changing the dependency management and fixing errors.
golangconnect-sdkopenidoidcauthorization
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