Jan Larwig
Senior Platform Engineer
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Larwig is a Senior Platform Engineer with nearly a decade of professional experience and 18 years of programming curiosity, focused on building scalable developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, and automation. He has led cross-team platform deliveries at IONOS and Capgemini—bootstrapping Kubernetes via Cluster API and GitOps, managing dozens of clusters across airgapped sites, and delivering internal developer platforms for 100+ engineers under tight deadlines. As a core maintainer of OAuth2 Proxy (one of the most widely deployed OIDC/OAuth2 projects with tens of millions of downloads), he oversees releases, security fixes and community adoption into the CNCF sandbox. Comfortable across bare metal, Kubernetes, CI/CD and security tooling, Jan combines hands-on Golang automation with a knack for turning complex compliance and airgap constraints into repeatable tooling. He’s also an active open-source contributor and mentor who enjoys improving developer experience and shipping reliable foundations that scale.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Computer Science at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
German, English
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Github Skills (11)
go10
oauth2-proxy10
github10
back-end-development10
testing10
security9
apidoc9
openid-connect9
api9
sso-authentication8
cloud-infrastructure7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:536 reviews, 1 commit, 262 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements related to the OAuth2 Proxy's handling of different identity providers and configurations. They addressed issues with default scope settings for various providers, particularly for OpenID Connect and GitHub. The user also refactored OIDC scope logic and made changes to include support for GitHub groups (orgs/teams) to authorize access to protected resources.
proxyreverse-proxyidentityazureoauth2
seacrew/helm-compose
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Helm Compose is a helm plugin for managing multiple releases of one or many charts within a single configuration file.
Contributions:10 releases, 29 reviews, 41 commits in 1 month
composehelmhelm-pluginhelm-pluginsk8s
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