Charles Rea
Principal Engineer at Okta
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharles Rea is a Principal Engineer based in Bristol with 11 years' experience leading identity-focused engineering teams, currently guiding the core OAuth, OIDC, and SAML protocol implementations at Auth0/Okta. He blends hands-on frontend and backend development with a strong emphasis on security, technical quality, and driving product design from early lifecycle stages. As a technical lead and coach, he has a track record of lifting team practices—introducing unit testing, code reviews, and CI across consultancy projects—while delivering secure, scalable authentication services. His mathematical background (MMath, University of Warwick) underpins a methodical approach to protocol correctness and edge cases that matter in identity systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex standards into pragmatic, auditable implementations that balance interoperability and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cranleigh SchoolMMath Mathematics, MMath Mathematics at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (68)
ietf10
jsonwebtoken10
json10
web-token10
nodejs10
oauth10
pkce9
authentication9
express-jwt9
req9
lift8
jwt8
verify8
single-page8
auth0-js8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CharlesRea/clud
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
The solution to all your deployment concerns. Maybe.
Contributions:37 pushes, 5 branches, 24 issues in 1 year
deploymentdockerconcernsdevops
CharlesRea/galatea
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Dashboard for the game Neptune's Pride, written using F# and Fable
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
fableprideneptunedashboard
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