Deepak Prabhakara
Head Of Enterprise Integrations
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDeepak Prabhakara is a seasoned software leader with 15 years’ experience architecting and shipping complex SaaS and mobile products across startups and large organisations in Europe and Asia. Currently Head of Enterprise Integrations at Ory, he combines hands-on full‑stack engineering with deep expertise in SSO, SAML/OIDC and SCIM—skills he honed as co-founder of BoxyHQ and through open-source contributions to projects like cal.com and BoxyHQ’s Jackson. He has a track record of turning enterprise identity and onboarding challenges into developer-friendly solutions, from improving NextAuth integrations to building SAML endpoints and health/security tooling. Comfortable moving between strategic leadership and code, Deepak also advises early-stage companies and brings a practical security-first perspective rooted in Masters-level training in security and mobile computing.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University SingaporeMaster of Science Security and Mobile Computing, Master of Science Security and Mobile Computing at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyNational Public SchoolNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (26)
expressjs10
apidoc10
saml10
openid-connect10
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
nextjs10
next-auth10
api10
tailwindcss10
google-oauth10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
boxyhq/jackson
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
🔥 Streamline your web application's authentication with Jackson, an SSO service supporting SAML and OpenID Connect protocols. Beyond enterprise-grade Single Sign-On, it also supports Directory Sync via the SCIM 2.0 protocol for automatic user and group provisioning/de-provisioning. 🤩
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:179 releases, 2179 reviews, 531 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Deepak implemented endpoints to receive SAML responses and set up configurations for the `boxyhq/jackson` repository, a Single Sign-On (SSO) service supporting SAML and OpenID Connect. They added and modified code in `src/index.js` and `src/saml.js` to parse IdP metadata files and validate SAML assertions. Further work included the integration of a testing database and creation of an endpoint to exchange codes for SAML profiles, solidifying the core functionality for processing and managing SSO-related data.
decentralized-identifierssaml-idpaccess-managemententerprise-softwareverifiable-credentials
boxyhq/saas-starter-kit
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
🔥 Enterprise SaaS Starter Kit - Kickstart your enterprise app development with the Next.js SaaS boilerplate 🚀
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 1207 reviews, 1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Deepak primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the SaaS starter kit. Their contributions included upgrading dependencies like `next-auth`, implementing features such as skipping operations based on environment variables, and fixing issues with delete requests in the Next.js application. The user also worked on supporting roles and groups in SSO and addressing text and UI inconsistencies throughout the application. Furthermore, the user added an API endpoint for health checks and implemented security headers.
next-jstailwindcsssaas-kitboilerplatenextjs
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