Jørn De Jong is an Information Technology Infrastructure Architect with 11 years of experience, currently designing resilient infrastructure for Statens vegvesen in Drammen, Norway. He holds a master's in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from NTNU and brings deep practical knowledge of networked systems and operational architecture. A hands-on engineer and open-source contributor, he has improved backend authentication tooling in the well-known SimpleSAMLphp project, notably modernizing email handling and asset caching. Colleagues value his mix of rigorous systems thinking and pragmatic refactoring, and he’s in the process of migrating his development activity to sr.ht, reflecting a preference for federated, developer-centric tooling.
SimpleSAMLphp is an application written in native PHP that deals with authentication.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jørn primarily focused on improving the SimpleSAMLphp backend. Their work included refactoring the email functionality, replacing the existing mail class with PHPMailer, which introduces new dependencies but provides more robust features. They also made several configuration changes and improved the caching of static assets. Additionally, they addressed some minor issues related to URL processing and configuration handling.
The official Github mirror of the HTTPS Everywhere repository at https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git. You can send pull requests here.
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
gitwebwaitsecuritygithub-mirrorhttps-everywhere
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Jørn De Jong - Information Technology Infrastructure Architect