Florian Forster
CEO & Co-Founder at ZITADEL
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Forster is an engineer-turned-founder with nine years of experience building cloud-native identity and access management products and teams. As CEO and Co-Founder of ZITADEL in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends hands-on DevOps and backend expertise—evidenced by his CI/CD and automation work across the prominent open-source ZITADEL and OIDC repos—with strategic leadership of product and go-to-market efforts. His background spans systems engineering, enterprise architecture, and eGovernment IAM operations, where he led teams running Kubernetes-based platforms. Florian’s roots in hardware and vehicle electronics inform a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to security and scalability, and he pairs that with an MAS in Business Information Management to bridge technical execution and business impact.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Swiss Federal Proficiency Certificate Vehicle Electrician-Electronics Technician, Swiss Federal Proficiency Certificate Vehicle Electrician-Electronics Technician at GBS Gewerbliches Berufs- und Weiterbildungszentrum St. GallenMaster of Advanced Studies Business Information Management, Master of Advanced Studies Business Information Management at OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
German, English, French
Github Skills (32)
github-ci10
docker10
openid-connect10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
build-automation10
semantic-release10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
yaml9
golang9
oauth9
authorizations8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zitadel/oidc
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Easy to use OpenID Connect client and server library written for Go and certified by the OpenID Foundation
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 43 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to improving the build and release process, automating tasks, and updating dependencies. They implemented settings for GitHub releases, enhanced the CI process, and addressed build-related issues. Additionally, the user focused on refactoring and updating the project by moving to a new organization, and changing import statements, and updating the logging library. These changes and refactoring show contributions to the backend code.
openidconnectopenid-connect-clientserver-librarycertifiedpkce
zitadel/zitadel
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:510 releases, 668 reviews, 273 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on setting up, configuring, and improving the build and release process for the `zitadel/zitadel` repository. Their contributions include setting up a build process, integrating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and automating the deployment of Docker images using semantic-release. The user also worked on improving the caching and artifact paths within the CI/CD, indicating a focus on optimizing the build and release workflow. Furthermore, the user configured the documentation generation pipeline using gh actions.
serverlesskeycloakzitadelbest-ofera
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