Jonas Hungershausen
Software Engineer at Ory Corp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonas Hungershausen is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building cloud-native identity and authentication at Ory from New York. He brings deep backend expertise in Go—contributing reliability-focused improvements to Ory Kratos' messaging and phone verification flows and bug fixes and refactors in the widely used Ory Hydra OAuth2/OpenID stack. Jonas pairs production-grade engineering with clear technical writing, having improved documentation for complex IAM features like MFA and account recovery. His background spans embedded C++ systems, enterprise Java migrations, and open-source tooling from the Eclipse ecosystem, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems thinking and web platform fluency. Colleagues describe him as curious about novel technologies and focused on making distributed systems resilient and developer-friendly.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Hochschule Flensburg
German, English
Github Skills (37)
authorizations10
back-end-development10
api-design10
openid-connect10
smtp10
smtps10
sms10
security10
smtpd10
go10
email-templates10
authorization10
sms-messages10
backend10
server10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ory/kratos
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:610 reviews, 40 commits, 134 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jonas's commits primarily focus on enhancing the email and SMS message handling capabilities within the Ory Kratos project. They added functionality to abandon courier messages after a configurable timeout and replaced the message time-to-live with a retry count limit, reflecting a focus on system reliability and message delivery. Moreover, they added support for additional SMS templates, showcasing an understanding of messaging systems and backend configurations. Further, they were involved in creating a new strategy for verifying the phone number via SMS, which includes creating the corresponding templates and error handling within the code, suggesting a deep dive into the system's inner workings.
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ory/docs
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The Ory documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:183 reviews, 12 commits, 77 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily contributed to the documentation of the `ory/docs` repository, focusing on features related to Kratos, a user identity and access management system. Their work includes adding and refactoring documentation for account recovery, MFA, and logout flows. The user's commits also involve updating code examples and modifying the sidebar navigation, indicating a focus on improving the clarity and accessibility of the documentation.
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