Ajay Kelkar
Senior Software Engineer at collectAI
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolAjay Kelkar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hamburg with over a decade of experience building reliable, production-grade backend systems across Python, Go, and Java. He has focused heavily on identity and authentication services—contributing backend features and maintenance to the prominent open-source Ory Kratos project—while driving OIDC and account UX work at companies like Jimdo. Ajay combines hands-on API and CI/CD engineering with operational ownership, having led incident response, testing, and deployment pipelines at Deposit Solutions and others. He often serves as the security point of contact, triaging external reports and hardening identity flows. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs backend service design with frontend account experiences (React/Next.js) and infrastructure automation. His background (M.Tech in Computer Software Engineering) and steady open-source involvement reflect a pragmatic focus on secure, scalable identity solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at St. Xavier's CollegeMaster of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Software Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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Github Skills (20)
apidoc10
authentication10
user-authentication10
identity-management10
go10
api10
api-design9
tsql9
databases9
sql9
sql-database9
fileio6
android6
rest6
fileinputstream6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ory/kratos
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 16 commits, 23 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ajay's commits primarily focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the Ory Kratos project. They contributed to features like adding device information to sessions, implementing an admin API for listing sessions, and adding admin APIs for session retrieval and revocation. Furthermore, the user addressed code issues and performed maintenance tasks, such as removing dead code and fixing header parsing.
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kelkarajay/github-stats
Apr 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 release, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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