Felix Magedanz
Founder & CEO at Hanko.io
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Magedanz is a founder and CEO with eight years of engineering-focused leadership, currently building Hanko, a European, privacy-first authentication platform designed for the passkey era. He combines product-led entrepreneurship with hands-on front-end craftsmanship, contributing UI and UX improvements to the open-source Hanko project used as an alternative to Auth0 and Clerk. Before Hanko he scaled a student-founded digital agency to 25 people, gaining deep experience delivering client-facing web and mobile apps. Based in Kiel, Germany, he blends technical execution, privacy-minded architecture, and a practical bias toward shipping secure, vendor-lock-in-free authentication for modern apps.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf. Computer Science at Kiel University
German, English
Github Skills (9)
css10
authentication10
javascript10
user-authentication10
user-interface10
react9
webauthn9
preact8
ui-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
teamhanko/hanko
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
The Complete Authentication and User Management Solution for the Passkey Era. Open Source Alternative to Clerk, Auth0, et al.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 72 reviews, 129 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Hanko project. Their commits involved changes to various UI components, including input fields and page layouts, within the `hanko-js` and `example` directories. These changes included code improvements based on feedback, CSS and layout enhancements in the example app, and modifications to comply with Preact requirements, highlighting a focus on user interface and user experience. The user also made small wording and typo fixes in the UI translations and e2e tests.
takesuser-managementface-idbiometricspassword
FlxMgdnz/awesome-webauthn
Aug 2022 - May 2024
A curated list of awesome WebAuthn/FIDO2 and now Passkey resources
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
passkeywebauthnfidooauth2fido2
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