Dick Hardt
Founder CEO at IETF
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorDick Hardt is a veteran identity technologist and serial founder with decades of experience shaping digital identity standards and startups, currently leading Hellō as Founder/CEO from Lisbon. He helped birth and steward foundational standards such as OpenID and OAuth 2.0 and has held principal identity engineering roles at Amazon and AWS, blending protocol design with large-scale product delivery. A practical implementer as well as a standards author, he’s repeatedly built companies (ActiveState, Sxip, Bubbler) that bridge developer tooling and identity, and today co-chairs IETF SecEvent to influence security policy. Based in Europe but with deep Seattle roots, he combines entrepreneurial grit, open source pedigree (early Perl/Python contributor), and a long view on how digital identity will reshape personal power.
14 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
441reputation
154kreached
7answers
2questions
Github Skills (79)
aws10
oauth10
ssi9
terraform9
mtls9
infrastructure9
development-kit9
ssl-certificate9
aws-cloud9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
oauth2-client9
oauth2-provider9
api8
ssh-keys8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hellocoop/mockin
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
A Hellō Mock Server
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
mock-e2e-ci
dickhardt/hardt-xauth-protocol
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
The XAuth Protocol
Contributions:9 commits, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
cryptographyoauth2xauthoauth2-clientoauth
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