Arne Luenser
Tech Lead at Ory Corp
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolArne Luenser is a tech lead with 11 years of engineering experience, currently shaping the next-generation auth and access-control stack at Ory Corp. He specializes in payments, ledger systems and distributed architecture, having driven production-grade Payments APIs and high-SLO gateway systems at PPRO and collaborated closely with industry players like Stripe. A pragmatic engineer and mentor, he blends deep systems-level experience in Go and C++ with operational savvy from large-scale migrations to Kubernetes and long-running on-call duties. His open-source contributions to Ory projects (kratos, hydra) focus on robust TLS certificate handling, hot-reloading and observability improvements, reflecting a strong emphasis on security and reliability. With a doctoral background in quantum electronic structure theory, he brings a researcher's rigor to designing resilient APIs and tracing-visible distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who helps teams align technical choices with business goals while favoring clear, human- and machine-friendly design.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
tls1210
back-end-development10
tls1310
identity-management10
mtls10
go10
libtls10
opentelemetry10
webhooks9
configuration-management9
user-management9
openid-connect8
oauth8
testing8
server7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ory/kratos
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
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:209 reviews, 18 commits, 118 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Arne primarily focused on implementing features related to TLS certificate reloading and OpenTelemetry span events within the `ory/kratos` repository. They made changes to configuration files, test helpers, and core configuration files to enable these features. Additionally, the user contributed to the self-service hook functionality, adding request cookie parsing and improved tracing. Further contributions include fixing bugs, dependency updates, and optimizations related to database connections and session management.
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ory/hydra
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The most scalable and customizable OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth Provider on the market. Become an OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Provider over night. Broad support for related RFCs. Written in Go, cloud native, headless, API-first. Available as a service on Ory Network and for self-hosters.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 2 commits, 54 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Arne primarily contributed to the `ory/hydra` project by implementing features related to TLS certificate management and hot-reloading. Their work involved modifying Go code within the `cmd/server` and `internal/testhelpers` directories. These changes included test cases and helper functions for certificate handling. The user also updated the project's `go.mod` file, indicating involvement in dependency management and potentially refactoring or improving existing code.
hardware-securityany-languagefederationoauth2-serveriam
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